E-college may face delays
A row over which business model to pursue for the e-university threatens to delay its establishment, which is scheduled for early next year, writes Alison Goddard. A meeting of the steering group...
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Foundation degrees start small
The prospectus for foundation degree programmes Just 2,000 students are expected to enrol on foundation degree programmes next year, putting the courses' future in doubt. Margaret Murray, policy...
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HIV heretics
Although the evidence in favour of an association between HIV and Aids looks convincing (Books, THES, July 7), we know from history that in science the big battalions are often wrong. For example...
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Colin Matthew fund
I knew the late Colin Matthew only slightly but greatly admired his scholarship. More particularly, I was gratified by the interest he took in contributions I made to the New Dictionary of National...
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Engineering an exodus
So David Blunkett wants "vocational, non-academic GCSEs in subjects such as engineering, manufacturing and leisure and tourism". With that attitude, I expect many of this engineering department's PhD...
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First things first
The story "V-c's plea for firsts" (THES, June 30) implies I urged our external examiners to award more high grades to our students. This is completely untrue. Our externals need no advice from me: it...
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Pay powder keg
Local financial mismanagement and government underfunding are gradually turning the screw on staff in higher education. If the vice tightens any more, there will undoubtedly be an explosion. At this...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway has failed to realise in his report to the Russell Group that public spending on higher education is at least as good an investment for the government as it is for the individual (...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
If, on average, graduates pay more tax than non-graduates, then they are contributing to their education. If graduates earn the same or less than non-graduates, only then have they been subsidised,...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway et al have too rosy a view of "socially inclusive" Harvard charging high fees to the rich with big scholarship discounts for the needy. Elite American universities recruit fewer...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
Asking students to shell out thousands of pounds for their degrees is foolhardy and inequitable. The Greenaway report rightly acknowledges that higher education is in the grip of a funding crisis,...
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Rabat
Graduate students have demonstrated against the Moroccan government's inability to ensure employment. Many complained that they have been denied employment with multinational companies, which instead...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
Although expected, the government's humiliation of the Russell Group left the sector embarrassed. Mercifully, the mainstream media did not pick up on the additionally embarrassing news that the group...
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Some quality fudge
The Quality Assurance Agency's latest on the Oxbridge MA (Question 12 in Annex 1 of the National Qualifications Framework) is beyond belief. One of its main aims should surely be the discouragement...
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Worthless Ofsted
Ofsted chief Chris Woodhead, has told college principals that "we must have an inspection process that comes to some judgements we can stand up about whether students in your college are making the...