Letter: Golden oldies
A notable feature of the table of vice-chancellors' pay was that many large increases were given to those in their final year before retirement ("Exit under a cloud with a pot of gold", THES, January...
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Letter: Bottom lines
I was interested to read that Baroness Warwick, with whom Association of University Teachers comrades might find it difficult to make small talk when they present our petition, represents UUK (...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (1)
I work in the business school of a "new" university, and most of my students, like those of Frank Furedi, are here only "to get a better job" ("Why I ... think universities are becoming anti-...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (2)
A worrying trend towards what I perceive to be "educational Taylorism" prevails in universities. Many students feel like battery hens - force-fed information solely to produce a perfect exam answer....
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (3)
There has been an increasing trend to view the purpose of universities as the production of streams of "work-ready" graduates. Unfortunately, the real losers in this process are the students, who do...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (5)
In Student Focus (THES, January 19), Frank Furedi points to lowest common denominator undergraduate courses devised to meet access targets, while Diane Purkiss contrasts teaching for the bright and...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (4)
Frank Furedi highlights the difficulty of challenging students intellectually. This problem will grow as younger colleagues are initiated into the Quality Assurance Agency-led culture of reductionist...
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Daily TV & radio - Friday
Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Present-day Russia explored by Martin Wainwright via the themes of great Russian novels, beginning with Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment . Culture Fix: Postmodernism (1....
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Crushed by the harrow
The notion of agriculture as an advance in society is wrong - 'potato growers' are more aggressive but no more superior than hunter-gatherers, Hugh Brody tells Chris Bunting. Hugh Brody has friends...
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Better home, better health
Urban regeneration improves not just the homes people live in, says Peter Ambrose, it also improves their health. Its downside, however, is that it makes life costlier, he tells Anne McHardy. Peter...
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Openminded French salon extends its English affair
Oxford's Maison Française, a leading light in the study of French culture, is broadening its remit to encompass scientific research under a new director, Jean-Claude Sergeant. Jane Marshall reports....
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Don't know if the drugs war is being won or lost?
Neither does the government. So it has brought in David Pyle to assess the progress. He spoke to Karen Gold. The government's war on drugs will soon enter its third year. Its main targets - a 25 per...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week "The embattled field of archaeology (often accused of imperialism) should be at the heart of the classroom curriculum," Camille Paglia wrote in a recent Salon.com column. " is an...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Boeing, the US aircraft manufacturer, is investing in a £15 million aerospace research centre in partnership with the University of Sheffield. Neale Smith of Newcastle University...
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Latest UK news
Government should record fee-related expulsions A national record should be kept of the number of students kicked off courses for failing to pay tuition fees, National Union of Students official...