Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 1
I was surprised to read the piece by Geoff Lucas denouncing research showing that all other things being equal, state-school students obtain better degrees than independent-school pupils ("Uneven...
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 2
Contrary to Geoff Lucas, I am delighted that Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, is using his position and influence to highlight the issue of fair admissions to university. The snippets of "...
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 3
A representative of independent schools lecturing us on the "unfairness" of university admissions? Oh, the irony. Presumably an admissions policy based on parental wealth would be fine?Janet Hobbs,...
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Immoral and unenforceable 1
All (intellectual) property is thievable. The case Times Higher Education reported last week emphasises failure at a number of levels ("What's yours is ours ... but not all agree", 18 March). When...
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Immoral and unenforceable 2
I was surprised to see that "What's yours is ours ..." focused on the extent to which institutional regulations justified Remco Polman's actions, but ignored the issue of his professional...
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Intimidatory tactics
As members of academic staff at the University of Brighton, many of us with close links to the University of Sussex, we are writing to express our deep disappointment at Sussex management's response...
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Every second mark counts
As the challenge to tertiary education professionals continues to soar inexorably, and as the resources to meet this challenge are systematically strip-mined by the government at every turn, an...
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Sample of one
Because life exists on Earth, Ken Smith claims, it must exist elsewhere in the Universe (Letters, 18 March). "Probability theory", he says, makes it "not merely improbable, but ... impossible, that...
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Sad legacy
What a poignant commentary on the Labour administration, 1997-2010 ("Ready for the storm?", 18 March). It started with the mantra "education, education, education"; it ended by decimating the...
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Missing time
It is an occupational hazard of statisticians to check columns of numbers compulsively. Thus, I noted with amusement that in the report on the Sodexo-THE University Lifestyle Survey ("Hard work,...
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Ends and means
Your obituary of Sir Kenneth Dover (18 March) is brief, but still finds space to quote Mary Beard as saying that his book Greek Homosexuality (1978) got "to the bottom of things". Beard admits this...
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Robert Lee, 1959-2010
A historian who transformed the study of the English rural poor, although he did not attend university until his mid-thirties, has died.Robert Lee was born on 30 October 1959 and educated at Thorpe...
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One every 15 minutes
"It's a designated bus." That was the forceful response of Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, to the accusation that he had been guilty of "nominal misrepresentation".The row...
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Style dressed up as design
Fashion is a highly trained craft, not a celebrity trend, says Sally Feldman
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From where I sit: Reading the budgetary runes
If India's economic policy is reflected in its annual budget, what does Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget tell us about the government's approach to education for 2010-11? Nothing big, the...