No place for snobbery in jobs market
Chris Woodhead's parting gift to students receiving A-level results this week - denigrating the degree courses they are entering before they have even accepted their places - is ill-directed. The...
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Some ways to keep the melting pot full of talent
In the third of our series on universities in the 21st century, Rowan Boyson argues for paying Child Benefit into individual learning accounts, private funding and closer community links "Stick to...
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Echoes of TVU in Derby fiasco
As with Thames Valley University we are told there are lessons to be learnt for the sector from a damning Quality Assurance Agency report on the failings of a pioneering new university to protect...
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A tough break
After 20 years as a university administrator, I was a little surprised by your item on the difficulties that academics find in taking their annual holidays ("A holiday - what's that?" THES, August 11...
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A tough break
Academics not taking holidays? Well, like the class struggle, the fight for academic preferment never ceases nowadays. But I suspect that what academics call a holiday is not what is recognised by...
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'We already cough up'
On the basis of our salaries, when compared with our counterparts in industry, the unpaid overtime we do and the fact that we rarely take our full leave entitlement, I estimate that the academic and...
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Subject specifics
We strongly agree that induction courses for new staff should consider the disciplines that they teach and that the new subject centres could support this process ("Coordinated vision", THES, August...
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Subject specifics
Pol O'Dochartaigh is quite right to say that induction courses for new teaching staff should include a subject-specific element. The philosophical and religious studies subject centre of the learning...
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Nature of EP
At the risk of an extra bite of the cherry, may I add to Steven and Hilary Rose's reply (Letters, THES, July 28) to evolutionary psychology and clarify my prior, brief letter (July 21) backing them?...
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Insights - at a price
I see from the provisional programme for the 13th Annual Conference of the European Business Ethics Network being held at Cambridge University next month that students are to be charged Pounds 175....
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Vis-a-Viz-style guide
The leaflet "How to go out in Liverpool without getting the tripe beaten out of you" ("Rewrite demanded for Viz-style guide to survival", THES, August 11) was not published by the University of...
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Verbal remedies
As a new FE teacher I would welcome comments about the key skills we now have to implement. I teach complementary therapies, where communication with the public is paramount. But, in this age of...
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Curious omission
It is impossible to argue with anything that Paul Nightingale says about the economic importance of the new science white paper, Excellence and Opportunity ("White paper raises a cheer", THES, August...
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Bac is way forward
Bill Stephenson offers some alternatives to an unfair system of gauging a student's potential Admissions policies have been much in the news lately. As the A-level results become known this week,...
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A reason to play to strengths
Diversity will thrive if universities are given the money to do what they are best at, argue Richard Brown and Gareth Williams The Higher Education Funding Council for England admitted in a recent...