Riddle of the peripatetic fiftysomething
Luke Desforges, a lecturer in the institute of geography and earth sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, has been trying to understand what possesses people in their fifties to venture...
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Your day of judgement
Higher education is soon to get its first official league tables. Alison Goddard looks at what performance indicators are under consideration. The first official league tables for universities are...
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Scots link up in learning hub
Glasgow and Paisley universities have established a link to create a "hub of learning" in Dumfries using Pounds 1.8 million from the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council's strategic change grant...
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Napier University and Dundee College
Napier University and Dundee College have signed an agreement allowing students taking higher national certificate and diploma courses to progress smoothly to degree programmes. Napier's principal,...
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Teacher training to stay under ofsted
Teacher training in universities must continue to come under schools' inspectorate Ofsted, its chief Chris Woodhead said this week at the launch of his annual report. Mr Woodhead said that there were...
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Footballing heroes
(Photograph) - Footballing heroes: Colin Yates, a senior technician in visual arts at the University of Coventry, with a portrait from his series on the lives of black footballers. 'Many of us think...
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Cult-watch centre faces closure
A unique centre for the study of religious cults based at the London School of Economics may be forced to close due to a lack of money, writes Alan Thomson. The Information Network Focus on Religious...
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Common sense on complaints
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...
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Need for inspection
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...
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Need for inspection
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...
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Letters in brief
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...
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Letters in brief
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...
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Letters in brief
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...
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Alarm over inequality
Ronald Crawford, of the Committee of Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Principals, claims that the recent research by Bob Osborne on the relative chances of working-class students entering higher education...
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Alarm over inequality
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....