Risk blows Hull astray
The Whistleblower investigation on the Hull University Business School (THES, May 5) was old news that both trivialised and personalised, obscuring the real issues. In the public expenditure cuts of...
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Good governance
The clear support of Malcolm Wicks, minister responsible for the Department for Education and Employment's research strategy, for scholarly independence and integrity is welcome (Soapbox, THES, May 5...
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Send visitors packing
It is indeed high time for the government to take a lead in settling the issue of the visitor ("Visitors may have outstayed welcome", THES, May 5). There is an argument (as yet untested in the courts...
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Send visitors packing
The Quality Assurance Agency's retreat from the Dearing recommendation that students should have access to an "independent" and "external" system to review complaints and appeals is not justified by...
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Academic asylum
John Akker's article ("Refugee academics deserve your support", THES, April 28) was timely. He is not alone in criticising the illiberal effects of the government's refugee and asylum legislation....
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
As an Association of University Teachers-appointed director of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I have followed with interest recent exchanges in The THES on pensions. Sarah Oates (Letters,...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
I am surprised that there appears to be so much misunderstanding as to USS pension benefits. I would indeed have been delighted on retirement 18 months ago to have received a tax-free, six-figure...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
The USS offers a low-cost, totally risk-free, index-linked income in retirement - plus additional death in service benefits, dependants' pensions and ill-health provision. It can offer these benefits...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
It is worth examining what befell many who retired with benefits from the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities. This was a defined-contribution scheme that was the forerunner of the USS....
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Put the books right
In reviewing my book, Environmental Democracy (THES, March 31), Fred Pearce claims that my discussion of human rights violations in Karen State, Burma relies exclusively on a single newspaper source...
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Put the books right
In Raphael Salkie's review of the Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics (THES, March 31), he appears to endorse uncritically the book's conclusion that research proves that "the formal...
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No jobs for the tongue-tied
The Nuffield inquiry has suggested that a foreign language should be a prerequisite for university study. Frank Burdett disagrees. Two days ago the Nuffield languages inquiry, chaired by Sir Trevor...
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Milosevic's son in shooting incident
Serbian authorities have blamed the pro-democracy student movement Odpor (Resistance) for allegedly shooting at a supporter of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Odpor's spokesmen, however, deny the...
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Why I ...welcome this week's report into clinical research in North Staffordshire
At last the United Kingdom has the prospect of a research ethics committee system that works. That is the main message I take from the report of the inquiry led by Rod Griffiths, director of public...
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Goodbye to Beowulf
Valentine Cunningham breathes a sigh of relief as Oxford finally scraps its compulsory Anglo-Saxon English course. Surely the walls of Jericho have fallen. Most sensationally, the Oxford University...