Letter: Tripped on red tape (2)
The statement that the Higher Education Funding Council "has a legal obligation to ensure that standards in universities are monitored" is incorrect. No funding council is under such an obligation,...
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Letter: Sleepless in Seattle
David Caplin painted a fascinating picture of hectic events following the accidental discovery of superconductivity at 39K by Jun Akimitsu and colleagues at Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo in the "...
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Letter: Placement pay-off
Our department runs one of the biggest life science placement operations in the country. Each year we arrange up to 150 placements, including many in the United States (Letters, THES , April 20)....
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Letter: Casual staff routinely neglected (1)
I can attest to the downside of contract work ("Short term and shortchanged?" Analysis, THES , April ). My experience in six northern institutions has made me realise the level of utter indifference...
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Letter: Casual staff routinely neglected (2)
The article citing 41 per cent of university academic staff on temporary or casual contracts is wrong to present higher education as having the most casualised workforce outside the catering industry...
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Letter: What a surprise
"The introduction of tuition fees and scrapping of maintenance grants has failed to widen participation" ("Bichard: access plan falling short", THES , April ). Gosh. Anne Layram South Bank, York
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Letter: Berlin's one-liners
The temptation to rise to Christopher Wood's imputation to Isaiah Berlin of failure to produce one-liners (Books, THES , April 13) is irresistible. Berlin's writing and conversation were full of...
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Letter: Simplify the rules
This is a call to the government to simplify the student funding system. I hope it is a call that will be echoed by every student money adviser and sabbatical officer around the country ("Plunged...
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Leader: A better defence than a few damp fluffies
The arrogant disregard with which global corporations treat national governments is nothing new, as our business and management book reviews show. The clash of interests was identified decades ago....
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Leader: The public won't buy it if it doesn't look like it's fair
A substantial majority of the British public would like to see student grants restored across the United Kingdom as they are being in Scotland. They also share the Cubie committee's view, since acted...
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Latest international news
Stanford nets record $400m gift Stanford University is to receive $400 million (£280 million) from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the largest donation ever made to a United States...
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Latest UK news
250 jobs to go at King's King’s College London plans to cut nearly 250 jobs over the next three years, mainly from the schools of physical sciences and engineering, biomedical sciences and...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A system that offers personalised cancer treatment based on genetic tests has been developed by IBM, Emory University and the genomics group Nu-Tec Sciences. Georgia...
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Latest international news
Bill unveiled for $1bn university quake fund Two California congressmen are sponsoring a bill to set up a $1 billion trust fund to help universities revamp their buildings to withstand earthquakes....
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Latest UK news
Mandarin admits policy entangled in red tape Education department chief Sir Michael Bichard admitted to MPs yesterday that education policy, such as the teaching quality assessment, had become overly...