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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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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14 October 2010
Market weights and measures - Lord Browne’s judgement: let supply and demand shape the sector
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Browne review: how Britain has reacted
Reactions to Lord Browne’s review of higher education funding and student finance are flooding in. Here we round up what different groups have been saying
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At last, teaching will get its due
Alasdair Smith sees the Browne review as a golden opportunity to halt the academy’s distorted focus on research output
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Cable tells Lib Dem opponents of fees: come to terms with reality
The Liberal Democrat policy of opposing tuition fees is “simply no longer feasible” in the current economic climate, Vince Cable said today in a statement to the House of Commons.
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Take off the cap so students and market system can shape UK higher education, Browne recommends
The tuition fee cap should be scrapped, “blanket subsidies” for courses ended and universities freed to compete for students in one of the most radical overhauls of the sector ever.
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Opinion: ‘A free-for-all, and expensive for some’
Alan Ryan proposes that there should be no cap on tuition fees, grants for the talented poor should return and universities should lose their safety net