Centre set to boost help to college whizzkids
Strathclyde University yesterday unveiled its multimillion-pound Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde, writes Olga Wojtas. It aims to promote entrepreneurship among staff, students and...
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Making promises that only others can keep
Is US higher education heading for a lesson in the emptiness of campaign pledges? asks Martin Trow One important fact about the United States presidential campaign is that both candidates - and the...
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Bright initiatives made to please the chancellor
Last February in a speech at the University of Greenwich, education secretary David Blunkett caused a stir with two new policies: the e-university and the foundation degree. The speech came as Mr...
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Open question
We were sorry to read in your Whistleblowers column ( THES , October 13) of Penelope Pugh's experience when she sat her Open University exam at the British Council offices in Buenos Aires. However,...
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Open question
Your Whistleblowers column may give the impression that the OU provides poor service to its 8,000 disabled students and the 4,500 students who choose to take their exams overseas or in special...
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Bologna foundation
As UK signatory to the Bologna Declaration on ÌÇÐÄVlog, I was surprised to see an article, "Degree is short of European standard", ( THES , October 20) implying we do not...
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Italian connections
The position adopted by the British government in favour of the cloning of staminal cells for therapeutic purposes is one I wholly endorse ("Catholic Church vs Saviour of Childless"...
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Italian connections
I wish to comment on David Petrie's response to coverage of the European ombudsman's decision (Letters, THES , October 13). Mr Petrie is mistaken in claiming that the ombudsman's only means of...
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Put money where mouths are
The delayed announcement of the second and third years of the comprehensive spending review is sending shudders of apprehension through higher education. I know ministers in the Department for...
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Put money where mouths are
Chancellor Gordon Brown could help higher education in his autumn pre-budget statement next Tuesday and ease industrial tensions. First, he could say something about years two and three of the...
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In brief
I was disappointed that Lord Butler in his review of John Campbell's book on Margaret Thatcher thought the sub-title,"The Grocer's Daughter" was belittling ("The road from...
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In brief
Grocers did not sell "fruit and veg". Bully beef was more their thing. I grew up behind a greengrocer's and do not want guilt by association. Ian McNay School of post-compulsory...
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In brief
Thanks to THES for investigating some of the negative results of the anti-GM campaign. Could we see on prime-time television the well-established benefits of GM to the UK public (human insulin, beers...
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In brief
The Economic and Social Research Council has run an electronic submissions system for the past three years and receives more than 70 per cent of grant applications electronically ("Research...
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In brief
It was bizarre to overlook the established and highly regarded social policy department in Oxford in the feature, "Social science takes a place at High Table" ( THES , October 20)....