Vocational success is OU's open secret
In his article on Labour's online university (THES, October 13), Tony Tysome quotes Josh Hillham from the Institute of Public Policy Research as saying that the Open University has "a poor track...
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Yesterday's solution on lecturer pay
I used to support the creation of an independent pay review body for higher education staff as does M. G. Roberts of Association of University and College Lecturers (THE , letters, October 13)....
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Bell hooks is no lone black voice
You were right to profile bell hooks as one of the outstanding black public intellectuals in the United States at this time (THES, October 13). However, it is inaccurate to describe her "as the only...
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Bright spark
He is a part-time electronic engineering student at the University of Plymouth. He is sponsored by British Aerospace. He has been awarded the City and Guilds Silver Medal for outstanding achievement...
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Unorthodox... and untenured
Sian Griffiths reports on the mystery surrounding the failure of a respected Muslim historian, Ayesha Jalal, to secure tenure at one of America's leading universities. Original", "very very good", "...
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Wasted talents
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Could do better." It is such a school report cliche that,...
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Africa's tusk master
Richard Leakey tells Andrew Robinson how a young bone peddler grew up to become a respected palaeoanthropologist and politician. "You say I'm a scientist and a conservationist and a politician. I'm...
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Safe but sorry?
Does CUP shy away from publishing controversial work? Georgina Born believes that in her case it did. A few years ago, I had an experience not unlike that of Anastasia Karakasidou, the anthropologist...
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Mounted police always get their 'radicals'
Canada. A student's curiosity has led him to break open a file revealing that the University of Saskatchewan in Canada was the subject of undercover surveillance for over 50 years. In the summer of...
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Oxford research job jitters
A survey of 500 contract re-searchers at Oxford University has uncovered "serious and damaging shortcomings" in their employment. According to the Association of University Teachers, Oxford received...
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Disharmony over music assessment
Higher education quality chiefs have come under fire over their handling of complaints about the allegedly "unprofessional" and "confrontational" style of funding council assessors. Royal Holloway...
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Cuts confrontation
Canada. Cuts confrontation: students angered by spending cuts smashed windows and stormed the Ontario legislature building in Toronto after breaking through a phalanx of police.
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Old German jewel in new turmoil
Stone book in stone hand, William von Humboldt stares out at Berlin's traffic from the university he founded more than 180 years ago as a universitas litterarum striving to give a humanist education...
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Graduate wastage reaches crisis point
Italy. Late last year, while Italy's front pages were devoted to the daily twists of the ongoing political chaos, a relatively unnoticed survey revealed the equally profound crisis facing the country...