Good start, wrong road
More money for higher education is welcome but the cash crisis continues, argues Nicholas Barr David Blunkett writes (THES letters, July 24) that public spending on higher education will go up by...
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Millions of reasons to cheer
Education secretary David Blunkett says higher education's extra funding is substantial and meets Lord Dearing's key priorities ONE of the first things I was determined to do when I became secretary...
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Camera, action
(Photograph) - University of Wolverhampton art and design graduate Stuart Cole has created an "extreme sports camera" which can be used one-handed. He has been inundated with calls since the...
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Party games and curries with Derek Draper
NUS must continue its shift away from the shackles of the Labour party if it is to serve students properly, argues Lembit Opik I HAve got two things in common with the lobbyist and former Labour...
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Campaign in making
AS the woman leader of the "Gentlemen's club" you criticise (Leader, THES, July 24), I hesitate to ascribe perversity, but are you not a little ungenerous about the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and...
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10% to a good cause
Aberdeen University principal Duncan Rice and his wife are to be applauded on their Pounds 35,000 donation to the university's bursary scheme (THES, July 10). This is not as exceptional as you imply...
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Mentors
BOTH Bahram Behhradnia and Lewis Elton (THES, June 26) miss the point in their analysis of the relationship of rewards to performance in teaching. Financial incentives are shallow and superficial...
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Honorary degrees
Royal College of Art Honorary doctorates were awarded on July 3 to: Peter Blake, painter, whose works have been exhibited in the Guggenheim, Musee d'Art Moderne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Galleria...
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University museums miss out
THOUSANDS of local museums face an uncertain future despite the government's announcement last week of a Pounds 100 million injection into the sector, says the Museums and Galleries Commission....
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Abertay super schools may mean job losses
JOBS may go at Dundee's Abertay University as a result of a four-year structural overhaul that has created four "super schools" out of seven. A spokesman confirmed this week that jobs could be lost...
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'Ghost worker' dispute
A "GHOST worker", employed for five years without a contract and paid almost half the going rate for academically related staff, is locked in a dispute with the University of Wales Swansea. The...
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Professor on peace mission shot dead
JAPAN's foremost academic expert on the former Soviet Union has been shot dead. The United Nations observer mission of which he was part was ambushed by rebels unwilling to accept the peace process...
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Promotion prospects
LOUISE Casella, in her letter outlining Cardiff's research assessment exercise strategy (THES, July 18), points to the various career paths open to academics here. True, staff in Cardiff can move...
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Sydney sibling
In THES (June 26) an old photograph of the University of Sydney was wrongly attributed to the University of New South Wales. We are, of course, the original university of New South Wales and the two...
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Tooley put to the test
JAMES Tooley's Education Research - A Critique is a polemic masquerading as research, a triumph of inconsistency, incoherences and bad faith (THES, July 24). It is astonishing that the school...