The Pick - Hues and cries turned inside out
Turner Prize 2010Tate BritainUntil 3 January 2011This year's Turner Prize nominees, whose work is now on display at Tate Britain in London, are well chosen to arouse the usual mixture of enthusiasm,...
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 1
Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...
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Georges Charpak, 1924-2010
A Nobel prizewinning physicist who greatly enhanced our ability to derive useful information from atom-smashing experiments has died.According to a speech he gave last year, Georges Charpak was born...
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More and more and more
Our vice-chancellor has described the 35 per cent increase in managerial staff at Poppleton during the past four years as "a most promising development".He told our reporter, Keith Ponting (30), that...
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 2
It is hard not to chuckle when reading that employers prefer a "narrative" consultation to one where votes for and against pension changes are actually counted ("Pensions powwow set to begin as union...
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 3
The overwhelming rejection of proposed changes to the USS by scheme members in the UCU is not surprising. The biggest change would be the introduction of a two-tier system, in which a career-average...
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Hail to the chief
What is it/was it with senior Australian academics (Letters, 7 October)? Sixteen years ago, I was attending a population-geography conference at a Swedish field centre with my nine-month-old son, who...
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Impediments to excellence
Alan Thorpe does a good job of explaining that UK research is of the highest quality and delivers great benefits to society ("Listen out for the impact", 30 September). This success is the legacy of...
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A flawed but useful tool
I read the letter from Tom Hickey et al about their courses' outstanding National Student Survey results with disappointment ("NSS result: unsatisfactory", 30 September).We at the University of...
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His dark materials? Denied
Thank goodness the UK Border Agency is protecting universities from undesirable aliens ("Visa stranglehold chokes recruitment", 7 October). We all know that a little knowledge transfer is a dangerous...
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Fabric unravels
The news that Robert Gordon University, on the advice of some consultancy, is considering outsourcing its information technology provision is another nail in the coffin of the idea of "academic...
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Elephant in the room
While Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo is left to complete the first of his 11 years in prison, THE proceeds to feature no fewer than three pieces on student-recruitment issues in China (7 October) -...
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Gap in the record
Why are there no natural science books among "The Canon"?Martin Luck, Associate professor of biosciences, University of Nottingham.
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Not just how, but why
Insight and independent thinking are truly vocational skills, argues Alan Ryan
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From where I sit - World-class aims demand quality
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-11 featured six universities from mainland China, two from Turkey and none from India. The easiest defence for India is to attack the...