Letter: Give just rewards for our work (3)
It is depressing to see that the government is trying to reintroduce performance-related pay - something that failed absolutely the last time it was tried because it is so inappropriate to the work...
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Letter: A political priority
Your editorial ("Still no room on the election manifestoes", THES, January 5) bemoans the likelihood that higher education will be relegated to the sidelines in the forthcoming election and states...
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Letter: In the bad books
Protests by students and lecturers at the University of Ibadan against a visiting World Bank staffer trying to foist another large loan on Nigerian universities was sadly familiar ("Loan plea gives...
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Letter: Lifelong variety
Alison Utley's piece on lifelong learning last week ("We have ways of making you learn", THES, January 5) did not recognise that lifelong learning is not a unitary concept. The academics she...
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Letter: Disabling tactics
How depressing to see Universities UK scaremongering about disabled people (For the record, THES, January 5). It was tactics such as this from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (now...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
Seeking the Soul: The Music of Alfred Schnittke (from 6.00 R3). The start of a whole weekend – performance, recollection, discussion – devoted to the great Russian-German composer Schnittke, who died...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week After the previous programme’s mixture of fact and speculation about life on Mars, this week’s » Horizon : Destination Mars (Thursday 9.00 BBC2) turns to a possible manned mission to...
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When you're old, who cares how you die?
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
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Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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The iguanas can stay, but everything else must go
As Ecuadoreans queue to leave, Oxford academics are working with local groups to put the country's economy back on track. Rob Stepney reports. Giant iguanas used to hang out in the trees, but more...
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Prosper with a Peruvian
Fancy putting your specialist knowledge to more profitable use? Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius's study of US academics who have established new careers shows that the leap from campus to commerce...
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Latest international news
25% of SA undergrads are HIV positive A leaked South African department of education report says one in four university undergraduates, one in eight postgraduates and one in five technikon students...
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Latest UK news
Doubts raised about overseas operations Concerns have been raised about the Spanish operations of five of six British universities surveyed by the Quality...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Technologists of the future could be hampered in their early learning by glaring inaccuracies in basic science textbooks, warns John Hubisz, visiting professor of physics at North...
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New year's honours: more
OBE Patricia Greenhalgh , senior lecturer, department of primary care and population science, University College London, for services to evidence based medical care. CBE Ljubo Sirc , former...