Higher Education
Leading article: In the spotlight
Published: 19 April 2007
Should our academics play a bigger part in the intellectual life of the nation? Some speakers at this month's conference of the British Sociological Association thought that they should.
A mother's story: how my triplet daughters tried for Oxbridge
Published: 19 April 2007
Michael Thorne: Who needs a diploma that's like an A-level?
Published: 19 April 2007
The Open University doesn't attract as many people from low socioeconomic groups as it should; though, when it opened, in 1971, it did pull in large numbers of people who could not get a university education in the traditional way - and, of course, it still does.
Leading article: Not such an ass
Published: 12 April 2007
It is good news that the Law Society and the Bar Council are waking up to the need to ensure that the legal profession reflects society at large rather than those who have been to expensive private schools.
Who wants to be a lawyer?
Published: 12 April 2007
Against the grain: Religion should be kept out of politics
Published: 05 April 2007
How Anglia Ruskin is taking learning to the people
Published: 05 April 2007
Leading article: Anglia Ruskin University's lasting legacy
Published: 05 April 2007
Anglia Ruskin University's campus is being rebuilt and its plan to open centres in towns all over the east of England is nearing fruition. If it can really begin to emulate a university like Penn State in the US it will leave a lasting legacy.
Brenda Gourley: Our founding fathers would be proud of the achievements of the OU around the world
Published: 03 April 2007
Open Eye: Scruples under scrutiny
Published: 03 April 2007
Open Eye: Fruit, veg and bags of community spirit
Published: 03 April 2007
Leading article: Valuable links
Published: 29 March 2007
New figures show that the number of Indian students coming to study at UK universities has risen for the second year running in contrast to a fall in the numbers coming from China. India is now only second to China as a source of overseas students. This comes at a time when vice-chancellors are looking increasingly to Indian higher education institutions for joint degrees and collaborative research.
Students object to the changes on the UCAS application form
Published: 29 March 2007
Peter Beckett: An unfriendly welcome across the Channel
Published: 22 March 2007
Foreign-exchange students coming to Leeds University, where I am doing a degree in politics, get a warm and reassuring welcome and are offered university-owned accommodation. The knowledgeable, friendly international-office staff try to keep tabs on them, to make sure they're still alive and getting on. So perhaps I expected something like that treatment when I went to do a year at l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). I was swiftly disillusioned.
Changing fortunes: Lincoln University's spectacular transformation
Published: 22 March 2007
Music degrees: Conservatoire or university?
Published: 22 March 2007
Leading article: All in the family
Published: 22 March 2007
The decision by Ucas to require university applicants to say whether their parents went to university will give admissions tutors a new piece of information in deciding whether to accept candidates.
Against The Grain: 'Abortion is wrong and we should legislate against it'
Published: 22 March 2007
John Haldane is professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews. He argues that abortion is wrong and we should legislate against it.
Leading article: Time for healing
Published: 15 March 2007
The news that Sally Hunt, the former general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has emerged victorious in the election to become boss of the new merged lecturers' union has surprised no one.
Scholars at sea: the world's first floating institution
Published: 15 March 2007
Andrew Oswald: These are good days to be in academia
Published: 15 March 2007
For the first time in 20 years, I advise you to pursue a career in universities. It has been a long slog, through decades of red tape and low-wage mediocrity, but British academic jobs are finally attractive.
How businesses are helping to shape the future of courses
Published: 08 March 2007
Leading article: Meeting of minds
Published: 08 March 2007
The news that some universities are going out into British companies and other organisations to develop tailor-made courses for adults in work is a welcome development. For too long, universities have lived in their own little world where, if they got enough 18-year-olds, the money would roll in and staff could continue teaching the same material, year after year. Now that is changing. Nudged by the Government, the universities of Coventry and Chester are joining local companies to improve the skills of their workforces. It should be a win-win situation - universities will make money in the long run, and the country will benefit from better-skilled staff.
Against The Grain: 'Sex workers must be protected'
Published: 08 March 2007
Dr Teela Sanders is a senior lecturer in sociology of crime and deviance at Leeds University. She argues that we need to legalise prostitution.
Open Eye: Vocation, vocation, vocation
Published: 06 March 2007
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