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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Career strategies
Many of the UK's 'accidental' administrators think that their work is not valued and that their US counterparts enjoy higher status. John Morgan considers what gives the professional edge
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My Eureka Moment: Listening for the quiet voices
Lin Foxhall's rural childhood enabled her to see the significance of studying the lives of people traditionally overlooked by historians and archaeologists
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Heated discussions
The email conversations at the heart of 'Climategate' suggest a campaign to nobble journals, marginalise climate-change sceptics and withhold data from other researchers, says Andrew Montford
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25 March 2010
Don’t look now - Battle lines drawn over job security and pay
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Don’t undermine mutual trust, scientific advisers told
Contentious phrase kept in government principles despite protest by eminent academics, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Sykes review calls for British SATs
A levels no longer ‘certificates of readiness’ for the academy. John Morgan reports
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Tara Brabazon: Global address system
An African postgraduate’s vision of a ‘Radio 2.0’ that brings communities together reminds Tara Brabazon that overseas students contribute far more to the UK academy than just tuition fees
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Retrospective impact assessment an ‘insurmountable’ task
MPs back agenda but warn of vain efforts and the threat posed by science cuts. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Full throttled
The dictates of utilitarian ‘efficiency’ threaten to strangle the life out of the academy, argues Donald Braben
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Staff at King’s vote to strike
Members of the University and College Union at King’s College London have voted to strike over job cuts.In the ballot, 70 per cent of staff who voted backed a strike, while 85 per cent supported...