Divorce is all in academic minds (1)
I agree with Stephen Rowland that teaching and research can and should be "married" (Talking Shop, THES , October ). Not least because a divorce between them is a divorce between...
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Divorce is all in academic minds (2)
I am intrigued to know whether Stephen Rowland has any experience of university teaching or does he simply research the matter? Faced with large lecture sizes, a myriad of nationalities, religions...
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Welfare anarchy
Desmond King says that without politics the chances of improved social well being are limited ("A battle of self versus state", Books, THES , October 20). He thus ignores the...
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World classlessness
"Many vice-chancellors maintain that Britain can sustain only two world-class universities" (Letters, THES, October 20). This implies the rest of us exist in a state of world...
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A Nobel defence
Why does Bill Jenner, professor of Chinese studies at Leeds, think readers will be more interested in his rubbishing of Gao Xingjian, this year's winner of the Nobel prize for literature, than in a...
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A lone voice (1)
Am I the only one who feels that a four-level undergraduate structure for qualifications is necessary ("QAA told to rethink its award rankings", THES , October ). My college...
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A lone voice (2)
The problem with the Quality Assurance Agency's qualifications framework is its failure to distinguish between different kinds of qualifications. Vocational qualifications are taught mainly through...
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A non-exodus
The number of full-time undergraduates from Northern Ireland on courses in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland has not risen by 64 per cent over the past decade to 38,414 in 1999-2000 as you...
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Lessons from the US (1)
MP Barry Sheerman suggests that universities need to set up professional student recruitment offices ("US policy inspires UK team", THES , October ). What does he think universities...
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Lessons from the US(2)
Barry Sheerman is correct that we can learn from US universities on access initiatives and financial support for poorer students. Tuition fees and loss of grants means we must refine recruitment...
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Help firms to open up
Universities should teach future captains of industry how to act ethically, says Carol Adams. As business has become internationalised and multinationals have grown to sizes unimaginable a few...
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Why I... won't be filling in my research transparency review form
Hugh Stephenson. Lecturer, department of journalism. City University I looked quickly through the research transparency review time allocation schedule when I found it in my pigeonhole in April and...
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Man is messing up the climate so let's act now
Floods are proof enough that the UK must respond to its change in weather, says Merylyn McKenzie Hedger. At a recent forum on the south coast, the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and others...
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Net is on course for a hot guide
As the first member of her family to go to university, Amanda Gregory fully appreciates the liberating power of higher education. She is also aware that the wrong choice can be both financially and...
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Iberian spin-offs start to spring up
Spin-off companies are starting to appear in Spain and Portugal after link-ups between industry and universities. Chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay is involved in two new spin-offs in the...