In order to justify increasing student tuition fees to £9,000 a year, universities must provide packages of financial support that are approved by the Office for Fair Access as demonstration of their...
The current panic over the cost to the government of universities deciding to charge £9,000 a year reveals a surprising degree of confidence that the number of young people going to university will...
We believe the recent criticisms of Satoshi Kanazawa's work cannot be justified ("Damage limitation: evolutionary psychologists turn on controversial peer", 2 June). Contrary to the assertion that...
Seasoned tutors and lecturers develop ways of dealing with the common student problems of lack of motivation and poor attendance; however, current training courses do little to fully equip tutors...
In my speech to the University and College Union's congress, I proposed that the UCU spend more on supporting members and branches and less on internal committees and bureaucracy. I am at a loss to...
The idea of robots taking over care functions for the infirm ("Are friends electric?", 9 June) reminds me of the story about the owner of an intelligent robot who planned to entertain some friends on...
I am writing regarding the entry about George Orwell in the online edition of Oxford University Press' A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works. The entry credits Orwell with the authorship of 13...
In a recent news article, Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, talks about affordability with regard to fees ("Private challenge a major influence on London Met fees",...
Your news article about London Met pictured some rather simple hand-coloured A4 posters highlighting prospective course closures. One referred to "Perfoming Arts", another to "Carribean Studies".Let'...
It was interesting to read Malcolm Gillies' comment that "any sneering at things being vocational, I think, (comes) from the elitist section of society". However, many prestigious subjects (for...
I was looking forward to reading Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, but now Vernon Bogdanor has revealed what happens in the end ("Fascinating rhythm", 9 June). Drat - I might have to go...
Duncan Wu admires an adaptation of a play about how people lose control of their lives during conflicts
This government's policy has little comfort to offer the UK's children who live in poverty, says Gary Day
A technician on whom the University of Essex depended for more than 30 years for his "technical ability, dedication and organisation" has died.Philip Brown was born in Colchester on 4 October 1939,...
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