Tenure on hold
Good of Tessa Blackstone to appear at last week's AUT meeting in Manchester on the role of Unesco in higher education. The United Kingdom having rejoined as one of the new Labour government's first...
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Timely bust
Academics and the police don't always get on, but we suspect Amsterdam economics professor Rick van der Ploeg must now think quite warmly of the City of London force. His Centre for Economic Policy...
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Lattrell thinker
Alumnus to be proud of No 152 rejoices in the magnificent name of Lattrell Sprewell. A professional basketball player, he was in the employ of the Golden State Warriors, but now has to rein in the...
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Salary rise protests
Management at Lancaster University came under attack this week as it emerged that the number of senior staff earning in excess of Pounds 50,000 has soared over the past year. The news comes at the...
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Fate of RGO unclear
The fate of Britain's 300-year-old Royal Greenwich Observatory remains unsettled this week after the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the observatory's current owners, rejected a...
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Stradivari: the myth
THOMAS Levinson's romantic story ("The holy grail of sound", THES, December 12) was well titled; like the holy grail, the pursuit of the "secret" of Stradivari is the quest for a fantasy which has...
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Tough truth on poverty
IF IT IS true that we do not need 54 professors of social policy to tell us that the poor would be better off if they had more money (THES, December 12), it is perhaps equally true that we do not...
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Building on the future
Graham May alerts us to the teaching of soft approaches and scenario building in Leeds Metropolitan University's masters degree in foresight and future studies (THES letters, December 5). Here at the...
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How NUS lost its way
THE TWO letters from National Union of Students hacks you printed (THES, November 21) illustrate beautifully the two key ways in which the organisation has lost its way. First, the NUS mistakes the...
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Something has to give
I READ recently that the words in the Bible "an eye for an eye" did not necessarily provide support for capital punishment. The writer's argument was that the expression was conceived in a time when...
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Noises off at the library
READERS who have actually used the new British Library (THES, November 21) have been extremely disappointed. Although the reading room is pleasant enough to look at, as a place to work in it is a...
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High stakes in Ofsted inspections
HOW LIKELY is it that you will fail an examination even if you are competent? Such a question can be uncomfortable but it is a question worth asking and should, perhaps, be asked more often. In fact...
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History is a balloon survivor
I found the "Great Balloon Debate", staged in the The THES nearly two years ago, so fascinating, I have taken to producing versions of it with my foundation-year students. The ensuing discussions...
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Broken eggs and egos as all change
IT IS well established by those whose job it is to well establish these things that times of change bring the greatest stress. The status quo carries many advantages to the comfortable and some to...
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Insecurity is a myth
Is a job for life a thing of the past? Two reports paint very different pictures of employment today. THE Perception of job market instability that has guided government thinking on lifelong learning...