Concern over London's research resources 3
I am alarmed by the letter of the vice-chancellor of the University of London, Sir Grahame Davies, in which he seeks to reassure an earlier correspondent as to the fate of the University of London...
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Blend administration roles
The debate about whether administrators should ever be allowed the title "professor" seems to me a part of the wider debate about the academic/administrator divide ("Call to reserve professor title...
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Business lead in e-learning
In your article "Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning" (4 June), it was reported that academics see e-learning as expensive and time-consuming when it comes to teaching students. Clearly,...
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A plot that failed
The University of St Andrews is not the first in the UK to experiment with giving all new students a book and encouraging them to discuss it in book clubs when they arrive at campus ("One book clubs...
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Organising principle
In response to Alan Campbell's disappointment at my blighting of scholarly tradition (Letters, 4 June): I did not take issue with Gary Daniels and John McIlroy's analysis of political or economic...
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Time, gentleman
As time goes by, I value increasingly the worth of subtle, reflective argument and applaud those rare occasions on which bombast disappears from the everyday round. I deem it an act of kindness in...
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All co-ordinates covered 1
Justin Marozzi's jeremiad concerning the Royal Geographical Society is wide of the mark (Letters, 11 June).I do not recognise his caricatured assessment and would urge interested readers to explore...
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All co-ordinates covered
The Royal Geographical Society is, and always has been, a broad church. Those who suppose that academic credibility is detrimental to the organisation need only look to its history. In recent years,...
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Not thought out
I see from an ad in Times Higher Education that the Russell Group's role is to provide "thought leadership" to "the UK's 20 leading research-intensive universities". The ad talks of "a robust...
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It's bad, business
How ironic that the Government should see fit to place intellectuals at the behest of big business ("'Universities' out as DIUS is succeeded by business ministry", 11 June) just when it is precisely...
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Sir Clive Granger, 1934-2009
Sir Clive Granger, the Nobel prizewinning economist, has died.Born in Swansea on 4 September 1934, he moved with his family to Lincoln for his father's job with the Chivers jam company and spent the...
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Manchester Met/Oxford Brookes - It's a start
Two universities are offering schemes to help graduates increase their employability. Manchester Metropolitan University is to give graduates three weeks of training before helping them to find work...
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No business like pork business
In a shock move, our vice-chancellor has transferred himself and all 250 members of our administrative staff to new offices within the Poppleton Pork Products factory.He told our reporter, Keith...
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Whose data is it anyway?
A PhD student's run-in with a senior researcher sets Tim Birkhead thinking
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From where I sit - An agenda of despair
As you enter Lille III (the Universite Charles de Gaulle's arts faculty), you are greeted with the words "Le Capitalisme etouffe nos facs! Tuons-le!" ("Capitalism is suffocating our universities! Let...