Correct English
I write to correct a factual error in Claire Sanders' article, "Funders act on English report" (THES, June 16). The English Association, although it has a large individual membership in schools and...
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Chris Havergal
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Researchers with contract to fulfill
Universities and colleges are now legally obliged to consult both recognised unions and the individual employees concerned over every redundancy, even if it is the normal termination of a fixed-term...
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Mothers of reinvention
We live in a world characterised by rapid change. We all know that. One response is to recognise that learning has to form an integral part of our lives if we wish to avoid being shipped on to the...
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Cupitt's measure
Gerard Kelly meets priest-philosopher Don Cupitt, a radical who discomforts the faithful. Don Cupitt, priest and philosopher of religion at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is not complimentary about the...
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Universal picture
Martin Rees describes how cosmologists aim to set our solar system in a grand evolutionary scheme by describing a cosmic history probably beginning with a'big bang'. Whilst this planet has been...
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Coercion by the Nile
Muhammad Mahmoud reports on the ordeal of an academic who has fallen foul of Egypt's Islamic law. Academic freedom and freedom of expression were dealt a severe blow two weeks ago in Egypt when an...
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Turning battles into bunker hills
Anthony Gross calls on scholars to remember their duty and defend historic battlefields such as Tewkesbury from incursions by housing estates and golf courses. Most of the issues dealt with by the...
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Institutions think local on pay deals
Many higher education institutions want a major reduction in the number of pay bargaining groups down to either a single salary structure or at most two, according to a preliminary analysis carried...
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Women in graduate studies rule roost
Women now outnumber men among Australian postgraduate students and are rapidly approaching numerical equality on higher degree courses obtained through research and coursework. Figures from the...
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Jailed rector released in Macedonia
Fadilj Sulejmani, rector of the illegal Albanian-language University of Tevoto, has been released from prison in Macedonia after payment of bail of more than Pounds 45,454. He had been in custody for...
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Student entry goes on-line
Universities are turning to computers to make the application process less time-wasting and less expensive in the United States. Students like applying "on-line" because it makes their applications...
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Key issues for Nolan
Guidance on proper behaviour seems to be spilling out of every official organisation in further and higher education. The Higher Education Funding Council has published its rules for council members...
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Skills training for PhD supervisors
Postgraduate students are quite rightly expressing their concerns about the provision made for them. As only a quarter of doctoral students achieve their PhD within five years of registration, there...
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Undergrads are Oxford's strength
Oxford is in so many ways all that a university ought to be, it has no centre. It does take teaching and research seriously, your editorial says (THES, June 16). As a United States citizen who has...