Off Piste: An eye for the birds
Joe Moran enjoys the pleasures of office birdwatching and notes the parallels with academic life
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Leader: After the good time, resolve
The previous year seems one of plenty in light of the storm ahead, which will test leaders' fortitude and resourcefulness
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From where I sit (Canada): Tenure - nirvana for the lazy
In my 40 years as an academic, I have never met anyone who is not envious of scholars because of the long holidays we enjoy.As I am primarily a researcher, my teaching load is just four courses per...
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Sir Kenneth Dover, 1920-2010
A classical scholar celebrated for his pioneering work on Greek homosexuality has died.Sir Kenneth Dover was born in London on 11 March 1920 and studied at St Paul's School and Balliol College,...
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University of Oxford - Cost of culture
The Humanities Division at the University of Oxford is to be reviewed for the first time since it was set up in 2000. A five-year strategic plan published by the division identifies financing as the...
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The information hosepipe
Kevin Fong on Twitter’s shift from dull celeb-zone to super-fast data source
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Thanks for the memories 3
Laurie Taylor commits the common error of confusing a theory and a model. Behaviourism is not a theory, but it is a model. The difference is that a theory is universal, while a model is valid only...
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Protect our strengths and work together
Universities on this side of the Atlantic are also cutting their budgets, but, as at Harvard and MIT, only after taking a long, hard look at how to protect the strengths of their institutions ("An...
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Careless casualisation
A footnote to the sad record of academic exploitation: universities, it would seem, have cottoned on to the cost-saving strategy of employing staff on 10-month teaching contracts commencing in...
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Is hard work the full story? 1
Top marks to Wayne Martin ("Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work", 11 March) for working "obscenely hard" for students who work "obscenely hard" in return (or is it the other way round...
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Is hard work the full story? 2
The article "Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work" seems to have been published a couple of editions too soon. I was under the impression that such spoof articles appeared in Times...
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Rhetorical take on rhetoric
As teachers on the first MA in rhetoric in the UK, we found the picture of rhetoric presented in your article "Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk" (11 March) seriously one-sided.We welcome...
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A partial picture
Selective quotation can be dangerous ("Wales wants governors not cheerleaders", 11 March). The Governance Review of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales does indeed say that, unprompted,...
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Proof is in the probability
In his review of Dirk Schulze-Makuch and David Darling's book (We Are Not Alone, 4 March), Ian Crawford criticises the authors for claiming that we have already discovered extraterrestrial life...
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A slight oversight
I don't know why (other than out of courtesy) Kevin Sharpe exempts Times Higher Education from his criticism of slight book reviews ("Caliban casts out Ariel", 25 February).In the new format "mag" (...