Agony Aunt
Q) There is always so much to be done at work - lecturing, researching, travelling to conferences. How can I fit it all in? A) Be strategic, sit down and look at your key roles and responsibilities....
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The British government is to spend £30m preparing the National Health Service for the "genetics revolution" and a further £10m setting up four "knowledge parks" that will bring...
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Latest international news
Australia's aboriginal intake drops Australia’s vice-chancellors are to seek talks with federal education minister David Kemp after statistics revealed a fall of more than 15 per cent in...
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Latest UK news
Former parliamentary speaker honoured with statue A bronze sculpture of Betty Boothroyd, former speaker of the House of Commons, is to be unveiled at the Open University tonight. It will form part of...
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Visits to the European University Inst. Library, Florence
Deadline: 22/02/2002
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Laurie Taylor Column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor As you will be aware from the emails that have emanated from this office in recent weeks, our Open Day will be held this year on...
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Letter: Hiding under Bush
It is easy to react to President Bush's apparent rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change with claims of "irresponsible" and "pariah" ("Bush's Kyoto stance angers UK scientists, THES , April...
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Letter: Volunteering
The debate about graduate employability rates ("UK degrees top tickets to jobs market", THES , April 6) reflects the need for greater understanding of what makes a graduate employable. Volunteering...
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Letter: Bridging history
My heart sinks when history students tell me they have already studied this, that or the other. Indeed, we design first-year courses to minimise the overlap, thus accentuating the "knowledge gap",...
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Letter: Use the library record
Local library cooperation is again on the agenda (Letters, THES , April 13). In 1972-73 I led a Department of Education and Science-sponsored research project into local library cooperation in...
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Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (1)
David Blunkett has effectively told the Quality Assurance Agency to pack up its scheme for reviewing standards in higher education before it has begun (News, Letters, THES , April 6). The root of the...
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Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (2)
Surely there are better ways of improving teaching and learning than by creating an unwieldy centralised bureaucracy (the TQA) with a fuzzy mission that cost £100 million ("Worthy project or just a...
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Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (3)
As we all crawl, exhausted, to the April close of the 2001 research assessment exercise, suggestions for a new exercise may be considered most unwelcome. Nevertheless there is a case for a campaign...
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Letter: Sandwich fees
Sandwich-year students regularly ask what they get for the 50 per cent tuition fee they pay on their year out (Letters, THES , April 13). They say a couple of visits from a supervisor and a couple of...
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Letter: Quicker remedies
It is hard to imagine that an education ombudsman working under the jurisdiction of university visitors will achieve the independence or impartiality required to comply with Article 6 of the Human...