Staff mark limits to growth
In the fourth of our Pushing 50 series on the promises and prob-lems of a mass higher education system, Harriet Swain looks at how staff shortages could upset the drive to widen access. There are two...
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World Education Market 2002
This supplement was published with The Times Higher on May 17 2002 in conjunction with World Education Market  (Lisbon, Portugal: May 21-24, 2002). Digital deprivation  Whatever technology's...
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Welsh thrives abroad
The "richness and diversity" of Welsh writing, in Welsh and in English, may be "little recognised in England" ("Free Welsh voices to sing", THES, April 26), but it gets attention abroad. There are...
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Hit by low pay and Hodge-podge
Low pay may be causing a staff recruitment crisis (News, THES, May 10), but there is a more disturbing trend. My research students are increasingly abandoning the notion of pursuing a career in the...
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Hit by low pay and Hodge-podge
Those at last week's Association of University Teachers national delegates meeting heard an astonishing speech from the minister for lifelong learning and higher education. After stating that higher...
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Clones in rude health
The list of "aberrations in cloned animals" described by Jaap de Roode and Clare Mills ("Proceed with extreme care", THES, May 3) would lead a reader to believe that most animals born through cloning...
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In brief
The Royal Society does have an ethnic monitoring process for staff and university research appointments and we agreed to supply the Commons select committee with details ("The Royal Society savaged...
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In brief
The irresponsible representation of IQ tests as "scientific" on the BBC's Test the Nation raises serious professional and ethical issues (Features, THES, May 10). The measurement of "intelligence" by...
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In brief
I have long admired your policy of putting "top totty" on page three, usually a lovely at fashion college. But you excelled yourselves with the Britney Spears lookalikes (News, THES, May 10). Keep up...
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In brief
Neil Gregor's review of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (Books, THES, April 26) insinuates that the editors would exclude contributions by those who use the concept fascism...
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Codes for class
Coding by occupation may be an alternative to the postcode measure of university entrants' social class, but the data-gathering needs to improve (Leader, THES, May 3). The occupational code of many...
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Codes for class
Your leader criticises the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for not giving admissions staff information about an individual applicant's social class. Like information relating to ethnic...
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Talking down teaching
Frank Furedi claims to know what the Institute for Learning and Teaching thinks ("They sign on, turn up but fail to tune in", THES, May 3), although he is not a member. We have more than 10,000...
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Talking down teaching
It is suggested that academics "do not seem to think of applying their critical intelligence to teaching and learning" (Letters, THES, May 3). Many will find such a statement insulting and untrue....
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Turned off by tables
In 1994, the Quality Assurance Agency rated Royal Holloway's geography department "satisfactory" for its teaching. On the basis of these results from the distant past, The THES excluded the...