Dramatic tension as theatre college mulls privatisation
Silence over premium funding leaves Rose Bruford head pondering role change. Simon Baker reports
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Bridge the global gap, business schools urged
Business schools are going through a "pivotal time" in their development, according to a US-based task force set up to address the challenges posed by globalisation.
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News in Brief
Science select committeeTory member cedes his seatA member of the Commons Science and Technology Committee is to stand down just months after being selected. Alok Sharma, Conservative MP for Reading...
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Student activists set sights on v-cs
Left-wing groups plan to greet UUK meeting with pickets and walkouts. John Morgan reports
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'F' for 'effort'
Harriet Jones, Kay Yeoman and Helen James offer their insights into the dos and don'ts of feedback terminology
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Quit the quotas: only competitive tension will keep fees down
Market discipline must be introduced to ensure that universities deliver the best deal for students and taxpayers, argues Tim Leunig
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A guide to post-qualification anxieties (1 of 2)
In her leader "Drop the guessing games" (10 February), Ann Mroz agrees that the logic of the post-qualifications applications system seems "unchallengeable".I did my undergraduate degree in Hong Kong...
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A guide to post-qualification anxieties (2 of 2)
The debate about PQA presumes that the only qualifications that matter for entry to higher education are A levels. This in turn makes the leap of faith that there is a complete correlation between A-...
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Halt 'genocide' of academe
I work in a post-1992 university that is considered to be one of the more successful of the new universities and is in a healthy financial position. Last week, our vice-chancellor gave an open...
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Regulator, not dictator
Steven Schwartz's opinion piece on the establishment of a new regulator for Australian universities ("Irreconcilable differences", January) is a colourful and imaginative reflection on some of the...
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Successful Venture
The advisers to David Willetts, the universities and science minister, have doubtless drawn his attention to the list of the world's top 100 chemists published last week ("Acid test: clearly label a...
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Our own worst enemy
UCU Left's timely reminder that this is the worst time for factionalism reeks of hypocrisy ("Save fight for real enemies", Letters, 10 February).There are arguably other factional groups within the...
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Unfair comparison
You've got to laugh. An assistant director of human resources at the University of Birmingham, whose vice-chancellor took home £310,000 in 2008-09 according to the most recent survey of vice-...
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I believe I said that
In his review of David A. Weintraub's book How Old is the Universe? ("13.7 billion years - final answer?" 10 February), Shobhit Mahajan says the author takes seriously "Stephen Hawking's wry comment...
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Save Moon - scrap the Sun
Gary Day, reviewing Do We Really Need the Moon? ("Satellite in my eyes", 10 February), mentions that the government might abolish the Moon on a strictly utilitarian basis. I believe that this would...