Let's stop this shameful elitism 3
There seems to be a lot of hot air being expended on the issue of increasing the numbers of state-school pupils in prestigious universities. The Government could solve the problem at a stroke....
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Let's stop this shameful elitism 4
Bob Brecher's ideas to solve the admissions conundrum (Working Knowlege, October 8) are an eloquent expression of my long-held view that student places should be allocated by lottery. Brecher...
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Misplaced honour
I am surprised by the excuses used by Nottingham University to justify the award of an honorary degree to Chinese minister Chen Zhili, who is now facing charges of torture and crimes against humanity...
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Unwanted charity
Deian Hopkin commits the cardinal error of assuming that students need more and different sources of financial advice rather than a simplified system (Soapbox, October 8). Financial advice is best...
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Reflections on Alice
Yes, it's true "put a mirror on the floor... and you will see yourself feet upwards" (Book review, October 1). But exactly why? A plane mirror inverts space in whichever direction is perpendicular to...
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Death mirrors art
Jacques Derrida's death confirms his analysis. His text event was unintended by its author and only its readers can decipher its meaning. I. Morgan Lincoln
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Ill will afflicts NHSU 1
Contrary to popular myth, the raison d'être of the National Health Service University was not to create a new new university, it was to widen learning opportunities in the UK's biggest workplace for...
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Ill will afflicts NHSU 2
Your account of reaction to the Wells Review of the NHSU filled me with dismay. The negative tone, principally of higher education representatives, is in marked contrast to the enthusiastic support...
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End abuse of casuals
Graham Sharp (Letters, October 8) says it's time the unions recognised the plight of hourly paid lecturers who develop very large parts of the teaching load in many universities. He is right, and we...
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Some Irish news
In your coverage of Irish higher education, you appear to prefer tittle-tattle to significant news events. On September 24 the first meeting took place in Dublin between Universities UK and...
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Evidence ignored
Paul Ramsden (Opinion, October 1) correctly advocates the use of evidence to back up conclusions and then contradicts his own advice - claiming without evidence that the National Student Survey did...
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Laurie Taylor column
More disturbing evidence of short-term casualisation in higher education - The Times Higher, October 8. Well, thank you for coming to see us today, Dr Cummings. I think everyone on this committee was...
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Leader: Beware the price of the hard sell
Organisations that sell cars, food and houses have long had to face up to the fact that the attractive documents they use to persuade customers to buy may turn round to bite them when things go wrong...
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Leader: Well-padded journals
There are few industries in which a company that has implemented price rises of per cent in the past four years can seem a model of restraint. But a new survey this week shows that this is the lowest...
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Today's news
Middlesex abolishes exams for first-years Middlesex University has abandoned exams for first-year degree students in what critics claim is an unprecedented move to make it easier for students to pass...