This book presents the voices of migrant workers living in London and working in cleaning, construction, food processing, hospitality and domiciliary care. The authors show the ways in which the...
In a recent interview, legendary music producer Brian Eno declared the record to be a "blip" in the history of the music industries. By this he was referring less to the actual vinyl format than to...
Statistical skills are in short supply in social research, according to both the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Social Fund ("Quantitative is qualitative" and "Europe, know...
It was good to see a short report in last week's Times Higher Education on the ESRC's International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology ("Quantitative is qualitative"). While you rightly pointed to...
It was disappointing, although not unexpected, to see yet another story in THE dedicated to reopening the question of tuition fees in Scotland ("Ready to charge?", 15 April). The scarcity of...
It is simply not the case that Scottish universities have not charged tuition fees for a decade. Fees for full-time undergraduates may have been abolished in 2000, but part-time students continue to...
Your article, "Balls can act, so why can't I: Lammy was vexed by London Met constraints" (15 April), reported that David Lammy, the higher education minister, was puzzled and frustrated by his...
Those who lecture and provide support at London Met have done a great job carrying on while those charged with managing the university lurched from one disaster to another. Some of those "managers"...
There is a much easier solution to the problem of global market pressure on vice-chancellors' salaries than the ones suggested in THE ("World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it", 8 April). If vice...
In "Third spaces and bragging rights: the administrator fights back" (8 April), Matthew Andrews asks: "Should we recapture the term 'administrator'?" I couldn't agree more.Recent reports, including...
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is correct when he writes that "the best test of what my British colleagues are now learning to call the 'impact' of research is: how does it change undergraduates' minds and...
Further to your report on the University of Essex's study into the health dangers of terrestrial trunked radio, or Tetra, "a type of phone mast" ("Hold the phones, it's fine", 15 April), it may be...
Shock, horror! Nice, predominantly middle-class academics to vote Lib Dem ("Clear preference for Clegg in poll", 8 April)?Perhaps more interesting than this entirely predictable outcome is the...
A Nobel laureate who pioneered two major advances in 20th-century medicine has died.Sir James Black was born in Lanarkshire on 14 June 1924 and educated at Beath High School, where pressure from a...
In a shock move, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has issued a strong condemnation of the postgraduate course on The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism currently being taught by Mr Ted...