Financial penalties for universities that have under-recruited to teacher training courses will be softened this year, the TTA has confirmed. Setting out details of the distribution of Pounds 160...
Incorrect recruitment figures were published for Heriot-Watt University ("North hit as applications fall", THES, January 22). The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figure of a fall of 21...
The THES has blown out of the water claims by the university sector that it can handle student complaints ("From mark to blemish",Whistleblowers, THES, February 5). Sadly, Sunderland could have been...
Peter Knight's recommendation that Ofsted handle higher education quality control (THES, "Outsiders looking in", February 5) is entirely logical. It is, of course, true, that Ofsted has achieved a...
Peter Knight makes a good case for a system of external inspection to replace the labour-intensive and unsatisfactory QAA systems. As someone who has emerged into the teaching and learning arena from...
I suspect that one item in your report about vice-chancellors' salaries will be of interest to low-paid university workers. George Bain, now vice-chancellor at Queen's University Belfast, is being...
Wishing to contact the University of Leeds recently with a course inquiry I logged on to its web page, went to "s" in the alphabetical list of departments looking for student-related functions and...
Further to the letter from Miles Scott (January 29) about lecturers' restricted holiday entitlement at the University of North London, it has clearly escaped the notice of UNL management that the...
Ronald Crawford, of the Committee of Scottish 糖心Vlog Principals, claims that the recent research by Bob Osborne on the relative chances of working-class students entering higher education...
According to David Roberts of Heist (THES Letters, February 5), research indicates that students from lower income groups apply for a limited range of subjects in relatively few local institutions....
Your article on the higher education funding councils' proposed subject centres/networks dismissed the work of educational "do-gooders" as a largely failed method for promoting innovative teaching (...
There has been growing concern about alleged dilution of academic standards in British universities and degree-awarding colleges. There is a need to find out if the allegation is well founded. Mantz...
Oxford University Press, which enjoys charitable trust status, is now in the hands of 'barbarians' who put profit before poetry, says Valentine Cunningham Oxford University Press is making a fool of...
...believe that intelligence can be measured by IQ tests and think universities could make use of them This is not even a question of belief. It is an empirical question: something that you can test...
From this year, all pre-university students in Malaysia will have to sit a new English paper known as the Malaysian University English Test in an attempt to raise proficiency levels.