David Blunkett made a promise before the last general election and is delivering it. He said that as home secretary, he would make his predecessor Jack Straw look like a liberal. Now he wants powers...
Staff at the University of Wolverhampton are going off sick with stress. Staff in further education are feeling under-appreciated. Chelsea Clinton is homesick. It is November. But this is not just...
It is a pity that Rebecca Boden (Letters, THES , November 9) did not check my views with the paper I gave at the Universities UK/Society for Research in Higher Education conference rather than base...
It is simplistic and misleading to suggest a stark choice between statutory corporations, which are prone to "improprieties and breakdown" and where chief executives dominate "pliant" governors, and...
So universities should be run by "shared governance". The trouble is we have a generation of governors and managers who think they run universities but do not, and academics who think they do not run...
The "professionalisation" of management in old universities is a depressing trend. The loss of tenure started the rot in 1988 by redefining the relationship between academics and their institutions....
Eric Froment, president of the European University Association, has given a timely warning about the potential for damage to higher education posed by the General Agreement on Trade in Services now...
Your leading article headline says that "to avoid a repeat of history, plan A needs a backup". Which history? The history of destruction of a vibrant university sector in the 1980s and 1990s out of...
The Quality Assurance Agency has no intention, wish or plans to "rank universities on a scale or 'several' hierarchical levels, from excellence to failure" ("QAA set to float new ranking hierarchy",...
After reading "Two fingers sure say a lot" ( THES , November 9), I found that my right hand is female patterned, my left male patterned. But the article did not give meanings for those whose digital...
David Greenaway says "taxpayers have bigger priorities (than universities): £3 billion buys 100,000 teachers and 120,000 nurses" (£5bn needed to match rivals", THES , November 9). Where do 100,000...
I know headlines are tricky, I did not, however, say that the challenges for the Learning and Skills Council were "too huge" (Analysis, THES, November 9), but that it faced "two huge challenges"....
Dennis Hayes is correct in much that he says about the proposed religious hate legislation (Soapbox, THES , October 26). A badly drafted law will harm intellectual freedom. There is a crucial...
Talk of an inevitable conflict between Islam and the West is "a fundamental fallacy" (Features, THES , November 9), not least because the two civilisations have long influenced each other. The...
The argument for fees or a graduate tax is that as a graduate benefits financially from a degree, he or she should repay the taxpayer who footed the bill. But high-earning graduates pay a higher tax...