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Tuition fee rise leaves part-time students on brink of extinction Thousands of students hoping to embark on part-time study for degrees next year will find their ambitions blocked as universities...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Staff will be required to divulge their sexual orientation to help universities demonstrate that they do not discriminate against them " - The Times Higher, April 29 UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON To:...
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Leader: Will sweeteners leave sour taste?
Variable fees may have turned out to be a misnomer in universities - although not in mixed-economy colleges - but there is plenty of variation in institutions' plans for disposing of the income. No...
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Leader: All eyes on Supa group
Physics is a science where size matters: there are few good small departments. And despite being overtaken by other subjects in the popularity stakes, physics is important academically as well as...
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Do something positive 3
I am surprised and dismayed at the biased coverage of the AUT boycott of Israeli academics by The Times Higher . Articles and letters spouting vituperation against the AUT give just one side of the...
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Support renaissance
I was involved in the recent reputation audit of Glasgow University and would agree that it has suffered from a degree of complacency ("Glasgow hears its gloss is gone", April 29). Increasing student...
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Shadow over Sheffield
The case leading to your article "Inaction fuels research row" (April 29) has cast a dark shadow over Sheffield Medical School. I have watched a good colleague getting mauled by a set of...
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All over bar shouting
Gary Day's electoral confusion at the difficulty of distinguishing between anodyne electoral contestants is reflected, I suspect, around the country (Opinion, April 29). Here in Bedford, the three...
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Sceptic thanks
Anthony Pagden's discussion of "Big Questions in History" (Features, April 29) opens with a quotation from Richard Rorty. An omission in his account is any mention of his late emeritus colleague...
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A question of choice
Your correspondents need to read more of the literature surrounding assessment when commenting on the proposed new university entrance test (Letters, April 22). Thinking skills is a discipline that...
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Editor has crucial role
Tim Birkhead states that we are "in free fall to a random refereeing process" (Working Knowledge, April 29). Unfortunately, his arguments lack cogency. For instance, the UK does not dominate the...
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Do we need teaching diplomas? 1
Do students learn better when taught by academics with formal teaching qualifications than they do when taught by those without any? That is the fundamental question that needs answering in the...
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Do we need teaching diplomas? 2
You correctly identify some of the difficulties facing lecturers undertaking teacher-training courses ("Lecturers bored by lessons in teaching", April 22). For junior lecturers, the twin demands of...
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Do we need teaching diplomas? 3
You are too negative about academic development courses for new lecturers. I was part of the first cohort at Bradford University to do a PGCHE. Initially, I felt it was going to be a waste of time...
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Do something positive 1
Those who proposed and voted for the Association of University Teachers' boycott of two Israeli universities would have done well to reflect first on the consequences of Mona Baker's ill-fated...