University develops structure to offer teaching staff, like researchers, clear progression route, writes Tony Tysome. The status of academics who specialise in teaching in research-intensive...
Coronary heart disease is the biggest single cause of death in the UK, causing one in five deaths in men and one in six in women; almost all of the deaths are due to a heart attack. A leading UK...
What is your degree worth to an employer? According to Anna Vignoles, a leading education economist, student tuition fees should be based on the worth of the degree to employers - The Times Higher,...
When Bob Dylan refused to "go down to Oxford Town", his scruples about the famous university there were understandable. For the subject of the song was Oxford, Mississippi, home of the state's...
On the one hand, more than 80 per cent of students say they are satisfied with the teaching they have received at university, according to the National Student Survey. On the other, 25 per cent of...
It is quite pathetic - although, alas, a sign of the times - to find someone holding a university chair in English language who takes fellow academics to task for their alleged views about English...
Jennifer Jenkins suggests that native English speakers should learn to communicate with Spaniards in "Spanish English". I have lived in France for four years. Should I be persuaded by Jenkins and now...
Jennifer Jenkins is worryingly confused. Toleration of varieties of English is one thing, a complete lack of critical judgment about suitability of language for different communicative purposes quite...
Anna Vignoles ("Surplus in arts may spur shakeout", September 7) believes there will soon be "too many" arts and humanities graduates - primarily because such subjects are less "valued" by employers...
Colin Feltham's heartfelt plea for engagement by academics ("Why do academics fiddle as the world burns?" August 31) is, in the face of increasing bureaucratisation, justified. But Feltham seems to...
Mathew Humphrey asks why academics still travel by air, given the rise of new virtual communication technologies ("Time to stop flying in the face of reason", September 7). These are no substitute...
The article about publishers delaying access by journalists to research results ("We ought to get all findings out fast", August 31) neglected the viewpoint of a major interest group. Like nearly all...
Have those complaining about the tyranny of research read their contracts? A usual academic contract specifies about 40 per cent of time to be spent on teaching, 40 per cent on research and the rest...
Kevin McCarron ("You don't need to know a name to teach a student", August 31) is wrong to think memorising student names interferes with the ability to teach. Worthless staff development programmes...
As a recently appointed head of department, I found the story reporting that heads are taking on the role to get more time for their research rather disturbing ("Headed for frustration", August 31)....