Winter is over but growth comes at a higher price
This week's spending review may at last mark a turning point. Many in the universities who helped vote Tony Blair in three years ago, and who have since wondered why, will certainly hope so....
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Unlocking better value with local partnerships
Much more should be done to foster relationships between institutions and local organisations, says Nick Barnes Universities and colleges are important players in the local as well as the national...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
My words at one of our degree ceremonies last week were not "bitter" (Leader, THES, July 14), even less did they reflect the "death of hope". Rather, they were a clarion call to seek to ensure that...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
Your headline "Let's throw away Greenaway" (Letters, THES, July 14) certainly amused my colleagues but is premature given the arguments advanced. If Tim Curtin reads the report, he will find an...
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E-psycho battles
There is a generation of leftist intellectuals who think their mission in life is to defend the poor, stupid public against the fiendish enemies of the people. Instead of furthering our understanding...
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E-psycho battles
Evolutionary psychology is all that Steven and Hilary Rose accuse it of - and more. Most damning is its Cartesian, naively "realist" epistemology. Hence not only its reductionism; its "property"...
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E-psycho battles
I am dumbfounded Steven Rose has put his name to such a polemical piece on evolutionary psychology. First, instead of quoting from a real proponent of EP, Rose puts forward his own definition: "EP...
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Reluctant recruiters
I was interested to read that universities are being urged to consider promoting higher education to younger pupils to widen participation ("Children need hard sell to go to college", THES, June 30...
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Empty seats for Serb
In his article on the plight of Yugoslav universities, Dejan Djokic ("An isolated academy is no good for democracy", THES, July 14) fails to mention that academics critical of the government have...
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Three in four gamble
The article on gambling ("Gambling rise a lottery legacy", THES, July 14) made no reference to the first national prevalence survey of gambling published a month ago. We recently commissioned the...
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Why I ...don't think Oxford needs a minaret
Alexander Murray. Tutor in medieval history University College Oxford University. I believe in beautiful Oxford, having lived there most of my life. When anyone decides that they want to build on top...
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Paying for the best
Higher pay for academics is part of Labour's effort to ensure world-class universities, says David Blunkett This week, I have announced that universities and colleges are to get an earmarked Pounds...
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Editorial injustice in the raw
Zachary Leader urges academics to oppose the restriction by copyright of John Clare's poetry Last July, an English lecturer from the University of Dundee edited a selection of the love poems of the...
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Union dismay over Pounds 50m 'sop'
Gordon Brown's promise of an additional Pounds 100 million for higher education could give universities their first real-terms increase in cash per student for more than a decade. The chancellor's...
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Red tape will cause red face
Red tape and bureaucracy cost universities Pounds 250 million a year, according to a report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council, writes Phil Baty. A single subject review visit by...