In a related decision, education minister David Kemp announced the government would spend $21 million over the next four years to support the marketing and promotion of Australian education and...
CITY schools are hot and it is not just the summer temperatures. United States urban universities and colleges that once considered their surroundings a liability are suddenly finding they are assets...
WARD Connerly, the black conservative who has done more than anyone else to end special admissions in the United States for minority students, has turned his attention to the children of the wealthy...
In the first of a five-part series looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for higher education, Howard Glennerster sets the scene In the first week of July the 50th anniversary...
UK higher education has several brands. Making them uniform would be bland and boring, argues Mike Thorne IT IS hardly surprising that the Quality Assurance Agency is floundering with the post-...
Roger Brown argues that pursuit of comparability in an external quality framework will lead to failure THE continuing difficulties in establishing an external quality framework for higher education...
THE 糖心Vlog Funding Council's intention to request tenders for Pounds 30 million to set up centres of teaching expertise in specific subject areas (THES, July 31) is a retrograde step. Cliff...
I HAVE been a member of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for three years and, whatever may have been the case in the past, the charge of being merely a gentlemen's club (THES, July 24...
WHY do you commission book reviews from people who believe that any amount of pretentious nonsense is acceptable, providing that it is written badly enough? Edward Neill's review of Queer Forster (...
John Hudson asks "what is wrong with (the) academic 'transfer market'" induced by recent research assessment exercises (THES, July 31)? I would like to offer two related answers. The first is that it...
John Hudson's comparison of the football and so-called "academic transfer market" completely ignores the effect of any transfer market on the "customers" of these activities. The football transfer...
There may indeed be "nothing wrong" with an academic transfer market as such, but there is a good deal wrong with the distorting effects which the RAE is having on research and the structure and...
MY letter (THES, June 26) about collegial governance went on to list new universities at which there had been allegations of mismanagement and/or corruption. I inadvertently referred to Derby: I had...
Now we know which ministers have earned the order of the boot, and whose "old-fashioned sycophancy", as the prime minister so delicately puts it, has appealed to him most. The nation's views on...
Monday Attend the faculty research committee. This represents the culmination of a vast trawling exercise into the status, location, performance and solvency of every student in the large graduate...