Regeneration package inspires new masters
A Pounds 40 million government package aimed at improving parts of North Staffordshire has prompted Staffordshire University to launch an MA programme in local economic regeneration. Rick Ball, one...
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Fee cap will close gates to the less well-off
In the fifth of our series on universities in the 21st century, Sarah Fitzpatrick argues that the time is right for institutionsin the United Kingdom to be free to decide what to charge. It has never...
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Is it time we abolished the GCSE?
This year's exam results and clearing season has been marked by a new surge of interest in changing the school year to allow university admissions to be made on the basis of known results, not...
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Salary or pin money
The real reason for the underpayment of academic women is that very few men believe that women have to earn their own living ("Sister of 21st century", THES, August 4). There is a general presumption...
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National bargaining
Chris Kaufman makes a great deal of sense ("Let the pay fight begin", Soapbox, THES, August 11). An objective of any responsible union must be to maintain as much national bargaining as possible. One...
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National bargaining
I have sympathy with college principals and support staff who point out that their pay is a long way off the fat-cat league ("Salaries too low to attract top dogs", THES, August 25). I would have...
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Ethics and plagiarism
Plagiarism and the concepts of intellectual property are complex issues that baffle some academics as well as students. Frank Furedi suggested it should be tackled with "an intellectual rather than a...
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Workers are stakeholders too
I was cheered and saddened by the article "Overhaul decreed for a wasteful system" (THES, August 25). It was cheering to read that the Higher Education Funding Council for England had at last...
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Workers are stakeholders too
Hefce has chosen the wrong moment to publish its policy statement on diversity in higher education ("Watchdog culture scares off risk-takers", THES, August 11). In the same week that Hefce told...
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Choice by gender
I am not sure which is the more disturbing, the photograph of the young Pakistani mother and her twins, where the boy is four times the size of his starving sister, or the framework of understanding...
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Union role at Derby
Geoffrey Alderman needs to get his facts straight before criticising the Quality Assurance Agency's investigation into franchising standards at the University of Derby (Letters, THES, August 25). Had...
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Joking apart
Christie Davies needs to conduct more background research about the Irish stereotype in British humour (Cutting Edge, THES, August 25). At school in Oxford in the early 1980s, I was again and again...
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Newton revisited
On reading that Cambridge University is launching an appeal for the purchase of the Macclesfield Newton Collection (Back page, THES, August 25), I was reminded of last year's sad revelation that...
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Teesside on top-ups
My comments on top-up fees ("Forgo public funds, v-c tells top-up elite", THES, August 25) relate to a joint statement issued by the University of Teesside's governors, academic board and the student...
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Commercial funding carries a hefty price tag
Industry provides essential funding but can present researchers with a conflict of interest, argues David Weatherall. For vice-chancellors of impoverished universities, the growing links between...