Hefce can save us
How heartening to finally have an acknowledgement of the value of our efforts to teach atypical students at London Metropolitan University and the difficulties we face doing so. How disappointing...
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Cash in pockets since 2001
We've read a lot of nonsense about the implications of the research assesment exercise 2008 (much from a rent-a-quote vice-chancellor), including frequent reference to a wider spread of funding and a...
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Pleasures of poaching
As an American physicist who has worked in Sydney and now Cambridge for nearly 20 years, I found some irony in the close juxtaposition of the insightful opinion piece by Alan Ryan of the University...
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No truth in age-old claims
"Older isn't always wiser" (29 January) is the headline of a report about University of Bedfordshire vice-chancellor Les Ebdon's claims that "many researchers" may be past their prime by the age of...
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Time for a new game plan?
For some years now we have witnessed the virulent spread of football or sports-related vocabulary in universities today - goals, targets, training, teamwork, game-playing and league tables, not to...
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Devilish argument
I do not know where Gary Day gets his evidence for claiming there are not too many references to Lucifer in the Bible (Daytime TV, 5 February). If he moved from television to radio, he would know...
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Case in point?
Simon Lee compares his situation to that of Josef K, who is described in your article as "accused of a crime that is never made clear and that he did not commit" ("Post-1992s need new governance...
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Sheila Allen, 1930-2009
Sheila Allen, a leading feminist, sociologist and political activist, has died.She was born in East Yorkshire in 1930 and brought up in Lincolnshire. Her father was an impoverished Irish labourer...
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Leader: Get serious about teaching
By continuing to undervalue and underfund the thing that makes UK higher education unique, we endanger our reputation
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Speak plainly unto nation
Sally Feldman says academics should talk to the media about their work
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Do it Steinway
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama will take delivery of 63 Steinway pianos on 4 March, after signing a deal to become the UK's first all-Steinway conservatoire. Ollie Mustonen, principal and...
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University of St Andrews - Gorillas' eloquent gestures
Gorillas have a more extensive repertoire of gestures than any other mammal bar humans, according to researchers at the University of St Andrews. They found that ape gestures, all 102 of them, are...
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De Montfort University - No slips on the way to market
An invention produced at De Montfort University that was shortlisted in last year's Times Higher Education Awards has hit the market. The Bagrak device is designed to keep shopping bags static in...
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London School of Economics - Fight slump with green spending
Academics have called for £280 billion to be spent worldwide on green policies as governments strive to tackle the credit crunch. Countries should spend on measures that will address the growing...
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Durham University - Play it again, Avison
The music of Durham's 18th-century alehouses has been celebrated on the streets of northern cities with the help of Durham University's department of music. A recent concert celebrated the 300th...