When will we see the Gazza chair?
The 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush is a convenient, if confected, peg on which to hang a review of Britain's progress in accommodating black and Asian immigrants. Immigrants have...
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The bumpy road to quality
Consultations on the Quality Assurance Agency's proposals for quality assurance in British higher education officially ended on May 22 amid signs that anger is rising in the academic community. This...
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Active role for a vigorous player
As vice-chancellors meet today, their leader, Martin Harris, sets out his aims and hopes for universities. Two convictions have underpinned the first of my two years as chair of the Committee of Vice...
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Swiss risk losing role
This weekend the Swiss vote on whether to tighten their already strict laws on genetic research. Jakob Nuesch argues that a 'yes' vote would imperil the country's research base. Some months ago a...
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Rough ride
I read the letter detailing what exactly "voluntary" redundancies at the University of East London were as I was sitting on a bus admiring a poster urging students to register for the bright, go-...
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Teaching at risk
DAVID Reynolds's reported views that "research hurts teaching" (THES, May 22) and that teaching is an "applied science" rather than art, indicate current dangers in policy. Reynolds, chair of the...
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Professional duties
TEACHERS from the '94 group of universities have clearly not appreciated the space for academic autonomy the proposed Institute of Learning and Teaching will give institutions and individuals (THES,...
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Professional duties
TEN million pounds for research into teaching and learning (THES, May 15) is of course welcome. However, over the past 50 years there has been a great deal of excellent research, which shows quite...
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Profit fans gene fever
WHATEVER the presentational flaws in the book by Mae-Wan Ho, for Mary Warnock to describe her as "the hysterical voice of doom" is grossly unfair (THES, May 29). Warnock ignores (at least in this...
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Too harsh a sentence
DIANE McGuinness writes that half the country's adults remain poor readers and that children's writing is way behind their reading (Perspective, THES, May 29). It would seem that some at least of...
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Too harsh a sentence
The article by Diane McGuinness omitted details of her book Why Children Can't Read is published this month as a Penguin paperback original at Pounds 8.99. YOU print "homogenous" with one "e" in your...
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Pounds 282 for a conference day out
IT IS time someone raised a concern about the ever-increasing cost of educational conferences. Fees are racing ahead of inflation and one-day conferences now cost more than three-day events just a...
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Purpose in Exodus
IN HIS disparagement of John Habgood's doubts about the Exodus account, Theo Balderston ("Habgood, have faith", Letters, THES, May 8) displays an uncritical attitude toward the biblical sources that...
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Keele's lost course
Your article by Vicky Hutchings ("A year of living famously", THES, May 29) describes Keele University as it was more than 20 years ago and yet highlights many of the features of the curriculum that...
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Academic blind spot in Asia
We are accustomed to the history of Orientalism in the West and its politically correct extension, the field of Asian studies. We are less aware, however, of Asian efforts to study one another's...