Data to end quota debate
There is an easy way to answer the objection raised by Toby Young in his debate with Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at the Oxford Union recently that capping the proportion of privately educated...
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Market has spoken: so?
Can one be certain that someone who uses the phrase "interpersonal communication" knows what the humanities are about? ("Strategy for American humanities: blow them up and start again", Opinion, 8...
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Separate but equal
Further to Stan Lester's letter "Compare like with like" (15 November) regarding "Second degree of separation" (News, 8 November): I would like to affirm that postgraduate training and education...
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Theoretical failure
I fell about laughing on reading the first few paragraphs of Matthew Reisz's superb dissection of an academically loopy interpretation of his father Karel Reisz's work ("A voyage round my father", 22...
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Healthy distance
Sue Norton's caution against first-name use ("Suitable address", Opinion, 1 November) rests on the correct sense that the classroom is not a democracy, that there is (one hopes) a "knowledge gap"...
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My sentiments exactly
Roger Ottewill and Mary Brown suggest that teachers should continue to teach after retirement ("Life coaching", Letters, 22 November).Their responses to my letter ("Qualified expectations", 8...
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Hold the phone plan
BT now employs less than 50 per cent of the people it did in 1984 when it was privatised. It is worth remembering this when considering useful role models for the future of higher education in this...
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Scaring the spooks away
Christopher Bigsby argues that academia is a prime recruiting ground for espionage ("Smiley's people", Opinion, 22 November). Leaving aside the point that I am not inclined to spy on people, I have...
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EPSRC grant: now no crystal ball required
Council’s chair ditches ‘misleading’ wording on strategic importance of research. Paul Jump writes
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Not monkeys, so why the peanuts?
Graphene discoverer takes aim at applied bias and short-term thinking. Paul Jump reports
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Opportunity blocks
Racial equality is sliding down the government’s agenda, says Sally Feldman
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Leader: Restate the statements of intent
Learning outcomes' laudable vision has been obscured by bureaucracy and the market: it's time to return to first principles
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Still leading, learning and sharing passion for teaching
Jack Grove speaks to the former president of Ireland who will lead an EU inquiry into higher education
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Charitable trust, shareholder suspicion: Buckingham v-c's for-profit fears
The head of the UK’s first privately funded university has reacted to the creation of the second such institution with “great scepticism”, warning that dependence on shareholders could be “even more...
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Knight takes critical position to become BIS grandmaster
Sir John O’Reilly will soon become the sector’s most powerful civil servant. He talks to Elizabeth Gibney