Battle is on to stop more funding cuts
University pay is a disgrace. Hay Management Consultants' survey published yesterday shows in its full awfulness the extent to which staff at all levels in universities have paid for recent expansion...
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A pluralist escape from Faust
Oxford is to vote again on a business school part-funded by Wafic Said. Valentine Cunningham is against, John Kay for I am glad the opponents of Oxford University's business school have shifted their...
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Strings that strangle freedom
Oxford is to vote again on a business school part-funded by Wafic Said. Valentine Cunningham is against, John Kay for After all the huffing and puffing in Oxford over the past few months - the mutiny...
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By a chair's breadth
Colin Mills (THES, Letters, May 16) spotted the effect of a gremlin's having changed an important word in my review of the Halsey autobiography the previous week (THES, May 9). Not only did the...
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Bolster science's eastern promise
I fully agree with the objectives set out in Dorothy Zinberg's fine article "Science can give security" (THES, May 30), in which she argues that Nato should support basic science in the 25 former...
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Choosers and losers
It is a healthy development to have an independent body comparing universities to help A-level and mature students choose where to study. In view of this I was saddened by your listings and comments...
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Hauled over the Kohl
Edward Pearce's account of the Cambridge Union debate on Europe (THES, May 16) was a tissue of distortions and inaccuracies. None of the speakers proposing the motion, including a senior diplomat at...
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Pickering: I didn't resign
The recent National Audit Office report on the handling of the investigation into the expenses claims of the former vice chancellor of the University of Portsmouth is a serious and damning indictment...
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Re-siting history
I hope that with its commitment to lifelong learning, the Labour government will set up a central focus for socialist and labour history resources, currently spread between the Modern Records Centre...
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A Ripon yarn
We were surprised to read in the article on further education and higher education mergers that no higher education exists in Ripon in North Yorkshire ("Do you take this college to be your lawful...
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The grey matter
In his lively and interesting account of the discussion on ageing between the Royal Society and the British Academy (THES, May 23), Jon Turney gets one or two things wrong. He perpetuates the error...
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True course of action
You state (THES, May 30) that the School of Education 'is to withdraw from undergraduate courses in secondary education". There is no such formal recommendation. There is a large-scale consultation...
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Untested by war or exam
Is it correct to refer to Bill Clinton as a "graduate" of Oxford? (THES May 16). I thought that Clinton did not pass his exams. Or, if you accept the more charitable (and no doubt doctor-spun)...
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More helpings of alphabet soup
The recent announcement of the chairman of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority seems to confirm that in this area at least we can expect continuity of policy rather than change. The new...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: *Staff costs at higher education institutions represented 57.9 per cent of total expenditure *There was a 26 per cent...