Letter: A wider look at participation 2
It may seem like a simple case of numbers, but there is a danger that higher education minister Margaret Hodge's proposal to lift the cap on university student numbers will jeopardise the very...
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Letter: A wider look at participation 3
As a governor of further education colleges and a university, I have spent much time debating widening participation and student-retention strategies. But it was not until my goddaughter went to...
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Letter: Only connect 1
Jon Bryan (Letters, THES , November 30) tells us that the moment when a student suddenly "gets it" is something that just "happens". It is wrong, he says, "to seek to do this by design and as a...
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Letter: Only connect 2
Despite his intention to advocate student-oriented learning, Colin Evans (Letters, THES , November 30) could not be more wrong when he describes "understanding" as a "woolly substitute for precise...
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Letter: Only connect 3
Colin Evans urges us to follow the fashion when he complains that "understand" is a cliche. We are told to deconstruct it into its constituent parts: things our students should be able to do - "...
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Letter: Only connect 4
Breaking a student's engagement with a subject into defined tasks can turn it into a process of jumping through hoops. Connections are not perceived, the synthesis that leads to understanding does...
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Letter: Building for the future
While the collapse of a ceiling at King's College London law school lends itself to a cartoon (Diary, THES , November 23), the underlying funding issues are no laughing matter. Higher education...
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Letter: Of mice and men
Adrian Mourby tells us ("Never trust a talking mouse", THES , November 30) that Walt Disney's children's stories point to shortcomings in Americans. They are, he says, subject to a "national naivete...
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Letter: Happiness is...
Martin Stanton's prescription for universities to become "happy places" contrasts with Tim Reuter's diagnosis of stress there (Soapbox and Letters, THES , November 30). Stanton advocates buying in...
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Leader: Guidelines must cover research practices too
The Wellcome Trust is spending about £3 billion on research in its current five-year plan, most of it through universities. So its wish for the researchers it funds to adopt national criteria for...
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Leader: Enthusiasm for future can help Europe flourish
On the eve of the Nobel prizes' 100th birthday, a conference convened by Europaeum, a club of seven universities in Oxford, Leiden, Bonn, Bologna, Geneva, Paris and Prague, met at Humboldt University...
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A left too lazy to look the 'Other' way
When faced with the intricacies of Islam, the British left lacks the theoretical framework for meaningful discourse, argues Stephen Chan. The recent "exchange" of views in the London Review of Books...
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Noble convictions that founded the Nobels
The Nobel prizes are the world's most widely recognised and most coveted rewards for intellectual endeavour. Michael de Laine surveys how the awards have grown in stature since Alfred Nobel...
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Repeat performances, canny operators and unrecognised genius
A rare group with several singular prizes Only a handful of people have won a Nobel prize more than once. The first to do so was Marie Curie, who was awarded the physics prize with her husband,...
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What does it take to be a consistent winner?
For a Nobel, it may not be enough to be clever. Harriet Swain looks at patterns in the prize. What does it take to win a Nobel prize? First, it helps to be American. The United States took at least a...