Teaching vacuum
Universities using postgraduates as cut-price lecturers may be risking the quality of student learning and research, according to a survey. Research by the Association of University Teachers,...
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Vice chancellors indicate support for current pattern of research funding
Vice chancellors meeting in Sheffield last week indicated support for the current pattern of research funding, rejecting any move towards a demarcated group of research universities.They also...
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Cutting edge
(Photograph) - Ken Hawley admires his collection of memorabilia from Sheffield's tool and cutlery industries, assembled over the past 40 years. A trust has been established to raise funds to...
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Cuppa care and a slice of service
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Doctors in trouble all year round
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. Over half of junior hospital doctors are at risk of making errors on the wards because of...
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Budget cuts get blame for boom in dropouts
More than a quarter of American students are dropping out after their first year in college, many apparently because they cannot keep up with rising tuition costs. A survey of 2,564 colleges by...
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A fuller future
Contrary to your gloomy prediction (THES, September 6), the Joint Planning Group's report envisages that 糖心Vlog Quality Council staff will be playing a full part in the new quality...
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A fur sighted vision
Kate Rawles advocates a moral framework for the treatment of animals in response to Roger Scruton's dismissal of animal 'rights'. What comes to mind on hearing the word "animal"? For many, the word...
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Campaign of grief
(Photograph) - Campaign of grief: Stirling academic Michael North's daughter Sophie died from bullets fired from Thomas Hamilton's legally owned pistol in Dunblane primary school gym. On page 15 Dr...
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Student paths
The Further Education Funding Council has published information about the retention, achievements and destinations of three million students in 441 further education and sixth form colleges in...
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Money for nothing
Lancaster University has come up with a nifty solution to its dire financial difficulties - expected liabilities of Pounds 5.8 million, redundancies, discretionary spending blocked, etc, etc. The...
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Marine protests sinks budget cut
A national marine biological station believes a political campaign against budget cuts has led to a climbdown by English and Scottish higher education funding councils. Earlier this year, the...
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Earning power that depends on learning
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Women are the biggest sinners
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. The biggest hypocrites in the infidelity debate are women and not their male partners,...
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Case for the defence of tutorials
The tutorial is, apparently, passing rapidly out of existence. Its disappearance will significantly impoverish the learning and teaching environment of undergraduates. Let me take the example of law...