US medical students say 'no' to firms' free lunches
Drugs companies have long courted US physicians with 'educational' lectures, meals and gifts. But trainee doctors increasingly spurn such offers, writes Jon Marcus. To American medical students...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
The inconvenient truth omitted from your report on the rise of teaching-only posts ("Lecturers with PhDs overqualified for job", December 14) is that PhD programmes do not normally teach candidates...
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Consuming passion
Frank Furedi mistakes the 1994 Group's willingness to discuss and debate the growing effects of market forces in the sector as a "proposal to treat undergraduates as consumers" (Opinion, December 14...
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McBoo-hoo to you
Your report of the Dundee study that suggests that Wales was not "competing equally" in the 2001 research assessment exercise ("Wales saved from £14m funding hole", December 14) strikes a...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
In my discipline of psychology, the relevance of empirical engagement and scholarship to high-quality teaching would not be questioned. Given this, it is imperative for all teachers in higher...
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Funding changes defy the workings of physics
Cuts in the STFC delivery plan threaten core subjects and diminish the UK's international impact, says Ken Pounds. The bad news started to leak out in the weeks after the latest science budget...
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McBoo-hoo to you
I have to admit some amusement at the complaints of Scottish universities about inadequate funding and the risk of slipping behind England ("Scotland urged to debate fees", December 7). This mood of...
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Who got that job?
Alia Brahimi Research associate, Oxford Leverhulme programme on the changing character of war, department of politics and international relations, Oxford University Job advertised in The Times Higher...
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World Encompassed
LAHORE UNIVERSITY SIX: CHARGES DROPPED Charges against four Pakistani professors and two students accused of chalking graffiti on a wall have been dropped. The six from Lahore University of...
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Holocaust tale that's also story of coming back to life
Jean-Marc Dreyfus lecturer, Holocaust Studies, Manchester University. When two young men met in Auschwitz, they did not know they would survive the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp and begin a...
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Number of top earners doubles
A quarter of male academics - but just 9 per cent of women - are paid more than £50K. Melanie Newman reports.The number of academic staff earning more than £50,000 a year has doubled in five years,...
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Payout for lecturer fired over visa delay
Southampton University is facing a large compensation bill for dismissing an overseas academic whose leave to remain in the UK had expired. An Employment Appeals Tribunal ruling published last week...
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Spectre of strike at Keele
Keele University is facing strike action from the University and College Union after it announced that 38 academics are at risk of redundancy, writes Melanie Newman. A university consultation...
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UCU to ballot on pay negotiation plans
Union members to vote on structural reforms and ban on industrial action during pay talks to preserve national bargaining. Melanie Newman reports. The future of national pay bargaining was cast under...
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Building on the past, looking to the future
Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Education Secretary, on long-term aims for a higher education task force. Our Scottish universities have a long and proud tradition, with four of Britain's oldest universities...