Cuts are inevitable, so let's join the debate 2
Your coverage of the proposed cuts to higher education funding tends towards an acceptance that they will happen ("Hefce budget to be slashed by £915m over three years", 31 December). Why?Education...
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Social promise
An open letter to Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health, from the social work higher education sector in response to the Social Work Task Force's final report.On behalf of the higher education...
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Past must not derail future
London Metropolitan University makes great things happen for students who don't get a chance elsewhere. There is some prospect of a fresh start now that the present board of governors has agreed to...
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Masters and servants 1
I was delighted to read the article about Elizabeth Hoult's paper, the presentation of which I chaired at the Society for Research into Higher Education conference in South Wales ("Let feminine side...
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Masters and servants 2
Sue Jackson would like university teachers to pay more attention to the likes of Luce Irigaray (Letters, 17 December). Is this the same Luce Irigaray who wrote that physicists prefer to study the...
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Arise, Sir Bob
Congratulations to Professor Sir Bob Burgess on his knighthood (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 31 December). He has done a tremendous job as vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester, which won...
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Viral jargon
In 1974, I wrote a program that produced whole paragraphs consisting of grammatically correct education jargon ("Jargon generator offers a reality check on language", 31 December). This "exposition"...
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Input-output questions
Your article "In research, small is just as beautiful" (26 November 2009) made some interesting points. However, it focused on outputs. One area that could be worthy of further investigation is to...
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They crack you up
Gary Day sees Victoria Wood as "Larkin with a sense of humour" ("Bend me over", 31 December). Has your resident lecturer in English overlooked Larkin's correspondence with Kingsley Amis, not to...
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Obituary: Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 1922-2009
A leading Classics scholar, known for his forceful views on Christians, socialists, many of his fellow academics and most aspects of the modern world, has died.Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones was born on 21...
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Always look on the bright side!
"Cuts! Bring them on." That was the defiant response of our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, to the swingeing reductions in university funding announced by Lord Mandelson.In a...
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Off Piste: Turntable revolution
For the young Robert Appelbaum, music was his guide, teaching him the language of life and leading him ever further away from the musicals of his parents to John Coltrane - and back
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The creative chaos theory
Tidiness and academic work just don't go together, believes Sally Feldman
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From where I sit: Presidency politics
With more than 18,000 colleges in India, why did the decision to make one of them a university make the national headlines?For one, this decision pertains to Kolkata's Presidency College, which is...
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