Pay structure: national vs local
The Bett proposals fail to recognise the changing nature of higher education in the 21st century. There is no recognition of, or attempt to celebrate, its diversity. Vested interests seem to have...
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Welsh mergers
The map accompanying the story "Welsh unis face merger plan" (THES, 10 September) provides the grounds for rejecting mergers in favour of re evaluating the actions of sector leaders in quietly...
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Degree account
In response to recent letters (THES, September 10 and 17) and a Whistleblowers column (THES, September 3) on links between the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Oxford Brookes...
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Visitor is dead
Graham Zellick's eulogy to the visitor (Letters, THES, September 17) indulges in the same "piffle" he is keen to dismiss. Whether he likes it or not, the Human Rights Act will not only force the...
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Very inviting post
John Brooke, an internationally respected scholar in his field, never "put himself forward for the job" (Whistleblowers, THES, September 10). Rather, at the unanimous invitation of the other electors...
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Cubie committee
Scrap tuition fees. Restore the maintenance grant. And raise income tax to pay for it. That was the message to the Cubie committee at its first public meeting in Glasgow, the kick-off of a two-week...
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Hands up
(Photograph) - Artist Sheila Gaffney has taken plaster and wax casts of hundreds of ordinary people's hands for her 'Locale' exhibition, which looks at individuality in work and British industry and...
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The THES Diary
Plane frightening Four vice-chancellors formed an air squadron at last week's Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals annual meeting in Shropshire, hiring a plane to fly from Halfpenny Green...
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Delegates stand firm in tuition fee debate
Alan Thomson reports from the Liberal Democrat conference in Harrogate Liberal Democrat delegates have foiled leadership attempts to resolve the party's problematic single issue fight against tuition...
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Willis to take over from Foster
Alan Thomson reports from the Liberal Democrat conference in Harrogate Phil Willis looks set to take over from Don Foster as the Liberal Democrats' education spokesman in the party reshuffle due next...
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Student complaints code suffers further delay
The QAA is running into more trouble. Tony Tysome and Phil Baty report The Quality Assurance Agency's code of practice on student complaints will be further delayed after it was conceded that the...
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Innovation stifled, claims Derby
The QAA is running into more trouble. Tony Tysome and Phil Baty report Derby University has accused quality chiefs of stifling innovation after a pioneering course described by an assessor as having...
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Researcher in Aids suicide case wins Exeter ethics dispute
Exeter University has admitted mishandling an ethical dispute over a postgraduate student guaranteeing the anonymity of those who had helped people with Aids to kill themselves, writes Steve Farrar....
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MPs plan inquiry into HE
MPs are preparing a major inquiry into higher education but are making it clear that it will not be a repeat of Dearing. Two years after the Dearing report, the House of Commons education...
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Chris Carr
Correction: Chris Carr, senior lecturer in strategy at Manchester Business School, has been appointed to a chair of corporate strategy at the University of Edinburgh Management School, which he will...