V-c pay on display 2
To get my name and my salary wrong is a bit much. There is only one "f" in Ife and the £193,000 you awarded me would have been nice, but it was, in fact, the sum of my salary and my predecessor's. My...
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V-c pay on display 3
London Metropolitan University is looking for job cuts because it has failed to meet internal financial targets. Could this be connected to the fact that its heads, Roderick Floud and Brian Roper,...
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Newcomers welcome
As an eclectic academic working at the interface of arts, humanities and social sciences, I was appalled to read your feature on the difficulties faced by young scholars in getting published in...
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Town-gown conflict 1
You quote Rhiannon Evans of Edge Hill College as stating that we chose to go against legal advice in taking the college to court ("OAPs lose home in fight with college", February 25). This is not...
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Town-gown conflict 2
I read with disquiet Mr and Mrs Beaumont's conflict with Edge Hill College. The issue of student lifestyle (noise and misbehaviour - appropriately attributed or not) and how it impacts on local...
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Imperial measures
William Calvin's assumption that early Homo sapiens was more stupid than modern humans is based on prejudice, not evidence ("Brainier - but not smarter", February 25). Calvin concludes that...
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Take racism seriously 1
Racism is a serious problem in higher education. The Association of University Teachers seems to share with universities a denial about its existence in the absence of "burning crosses" nailed to the...
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Take racism seriously 2
Should our members vote for a new union covering post-16 education, the AUT and Natfhe want it to have the best possible equality structures, reflecting the finest traditions of both organisations....
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Recognise this?
While a new awards scheme to recognise the achievements of people working in higher education is very welcome, The Times Higher awards are not the first such awards, nor has the sector "had to make...
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Faith in the truth
What a strangely defensive argument Sunny Bains employs against research "encroaching" into the interface between science and religion (Soapbox, February 25). If science can use its methods to...
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Character building
Kevin Fong's painful experience in the country of his ancestors (Working Knowledge, February 25) is not unusual. Many other British Chinese do not speak Chinese and have suffered in the same way. He...
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Hvng gr8 time in Tmbk2, call tmrw
It is portrayed as the adventure of a lifetime, the chance to broaden horizons in far-flung corners of the globe and an intrepid rite of passage. But the reality for many of the 200,000 British...
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Discretionary pay is 'lottery'
Academics face a lottery when it comes to discretionary pay. The proportion of lecturers awarded extra income in addition to standard salaries varies dramatically from one old university to the next...
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'I look forward to assisting the transformation of secondary education'
David Hopkins will put his experience to good use when he swaps Whitehall for the lecture halls in May One of the Government's chief academic advisers will swap the corridors of Whitehall for lecture...
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On the move...
John Landers , fellow of All Souls and lecturer in historical demography, has been appointed principal of Hertford College, Oxford, succeeding Walter Bodmer in September. Liverpool University has...