Cash for skill base in dispute
Half of Britain's young people should be expected to continue their education after 16 for at least four years, education leaders were told last week. Sir Bryan Nicholson, former president of the...
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Learning distanced from reality in India
I enjoyed the opinion piece "IT can not replace eye-to-eye" (THES, December 6, 1996). If the scenario depicted exists in a developed country like the United Kingdom, one could well imagine the...
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Scientists get teaching ideas mail base
Science lecturers will soon be able to use new technology to exchange tips on teaching. Jonathan Ling, director of studies for physics and astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire, is...
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Myopic elites
For many years Oxford, Cambridge and London played a highly constructive role in helping to set up other universities. It is therefore deeply ironic that members of these universities are prominent...
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Labour protects jobs
THE Labour party has pledged to outlaw waiver clauses for university researchers on fixed-term contracts despite fears that the change could cost the sector millions of pounds a year. The party's...
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Mix and match
The traditional campus model of a university is inappropriate for today's students' needs, says Bryan Nicholson, who believes a creative blend of further and higher education provision is the way to...
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School heads threaten boycott
SCHOOL heads have threatened to boycott classroom-based initial teacher training in a bid to sink controversial Government early retirement plans. The National Association of Head Teachers' action...
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Revolting brothers
Lewis Wolpert's lively review of Frank Sulloway's Born To Rebel (THES, December 20) contains an interesting factual error. Lenin was not, as Wolpert asserts, the first-born in his family. He had an...
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Road safety advice causes danger
THE TRADITIONAL "stop, look and listen" road safety message could be putting children's lives at risk, according to researchers. Psychologists at the university of Lincolnshire and Humberside have...
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So much, by so many, for so little
The conduct of the research assessment exercise has drawn as much fire from academics as have the results. THE MOST depressing feature of The THES's coverage of the 1996 universities research...
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Fund blow for colleges
A CASH fund to help colleges meet the costs of restructuring will not be renewed this year, the Further Education Funding Council has announced. The fund, which has paid out Pounds 77.2 million since...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE research assessment exercise is carried out by panels largely made up of winners from the previous occasion who assess publications they themselves have largely refereed during the previous four...
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Legal threat hots up maths syllabus row
A LEADING mathematician has been threatened with legal action by School Curriculum and Assessment Authority chief executive Nick Tate following his vociferous attacks on SCAA's changes to the maths A...
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So much, by so many, for so little
YOUR correspondent (THES, January 3) asks "when do you start work?". There is a researchable issue here (I feel a proposal coming on): academic productivity is related to generating new and valued...
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Trainers fear quality link to cash
UNIVERSITY and college teacher training heads have expressed alarm over the prospect of a direct link between new quality ratings and funding. A follow-up wave of inspections of all primary initial...