Euro-wide paralysis
Across Europe governments - and oppositions - are in trouble over the political and economic implications of the rapid transition to mass higher education. In just a few years aspirations have turned...
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Haggling in the marketplace
The animal spirits of education entrepreneurs have rewarded Iona Burchell with two degrees, debt and no job I noticed a job advertisement the other day in a local paper which proudly proclaimed that...
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Tesco, ergo sum
Richard A. Burridge argues that a crisis of value in higher education is shortchanging students and society. The academy in ancient Athens was at the edge of the agora so that its deliberations about...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...
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Treasury's shadow must not fall on pay
S P. Rouse is correct in the view that pay review bodies are unlikely to result in fair, professional pay levels for the higher education sector (THES, letters, October 20). It is questionable,...
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Key to the door for graduates
It is ironic that at the very moment when sweetness and light has broken out on all sides in what had become a largely sterile debate about how to ensure the quality of university teaching, the real...
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New ending from the history man
Francis Fukuyama tells David Walker why greater trust between people would lead to more prosperity. Alfred Schutz is not a name that appears among the many social thinkers listed in the compendious...
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Virtual politics, as seen on TV
Did Clinton's health care reforms perish in the glare of the TV lights? ask Edwin Diamond and Robert Silverman. At one point in the mid-1990s, the number one and number two bestselling books in the...
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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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Across the Finnish line
This week will see the state visit to Britain of the Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari and his wife Eeva. The ripples from this four-day event should encourage the expanding academic traffic between...
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Open debate on support
This week The THES is publishing in full a document drawn up by a group of student union officers on the funding of higher education (pages 8 and 9). The THES has long argued that students must be...
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Dr Peccadillo and assorted sins
The plagiarist, the fraudster and the cheat may be rare in academe, but that still leaves scope for some dubious practices, says Harold Hillman. Scientific fraud has been going on since the Greeks...
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Book move may net VAT
Joe Sinyor (THES, October 6) is correct to assume that the collapse of the Net Book Agreement will have a marginal impact on the price of core textbooks. My concern is that in the short to medium...
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Mature apprentice seeks titled role
Robert Oxtoby argues that institutions that can award degrees should be allowed to call themselves universities. Every now and then during the past 150 years, the higher education community in...