The week in higher education
• When he learned last year that vice-chancellors were earning an average annual salary of £220,000, Aaron Porter seethed with righteous indignation, describing the sum as "obscene" and accusing...
• When he learned last year that vice-chancellors were earning an average annual salary of £220,000, Aaron Porter seethed with righteous indignation, describing the sum as "obscene" and accusing...

US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

21st-century docs - Cartoonist turns film-maker to create PhD The Movie

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Here is a little puzzle. Picture two groups. In one, place those blogs that you have read about academic, cultural or political matters that interest you. In the other, put the newspapers most often...
I fear you have fallen victim to identity fraud. Surely the Tim Luckhurst who pontificates at such length about the decline in newspaper readership cannot be the same man who, I am certain, would...
Does Tim Luckhurst take a pessimistic view of the future of print journalism in the world of blogging, tweeting and people's vastly expanded ability to comment online untrammelled by restrictions?...
I may be the last person you would expect to rally to the defence of David Willetts, but if his recent comments on differential tariffs for A levels are interpreted in a certain way, they open a...
So vice-chancellors could not bring sense to bear on fees and funding policy reforms because universities are autonomous institutions and they knew that charges were going to rise anyway? ("Be ready...
Regarding "Speedier alternative to 'obsolete' OIA unveiled" (1 September) and "OIA remains the final refuge" (Letters, 8 September): we feel we should clarify the Centre for Justice's role.What is...
It is astonishing that the issue of how to use student feedback is still so problematic ("Efforts to secure student feedback 'missing the mark'", www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 4 September).It was...
The Library of Congress isn't the only organisation interested in Twitter preservation ("Memory failure detected", 1 September).Last year, Jisc funded developments to the TwapperKeeper Twitter...
What is this "decline" in the numbers taking GCSE history that keeps cropping up in your and others' pages (Letters, 8 September)? History's share of GCSE entries has remained stable for the past 10...
Who do Christopher Grey and the collective of historians think they are kidding (Letters, 8 September)? It's not David Starkey's alleged lack of expertise that bugs them - it's what he said. Moreover...
When I was 17, 64 years ago, I sat the Higher School Certificate. In French, there was a grammar and essay paper and one based on the study of a play by Jean Racine, another by Pierre Corneille,...