Leader: Like pay, the stakes are rising
The importance of balancing reward and responsibility is highlighted by the sums paid out when things go wrong at the top
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From where I sit: Ant music from a lost tribe
In early March, the day before the annual meeting of the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, three CPPCC representatives paid a visit to Tangjialing, a...
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Bernard Gay, 1921-2010
A painter who helped to steer the major transformations of post-war British arts education has died.Bernard Gay was born in Exmouth on 11 April 1921 and left school at the age of 14 to join the...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 1
Your editorial was right to emphasise the huge amount of support that academics receive from departmental and university administrative teams ("Accidental, but also elemental", 25 March). All British...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 2
As one of the "accidental administrators" referred to in "Career strategies" (25 March), perhaps I am fated to agree with many of the sentiments at its core. But I am more uneasy with the article's...
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Scotland the cowed
"The silenced saltire", Tom Gallagher's analysis of Scotland's political culture, is spot on (25 March). Devolution promised a more open, democratic and accountable society, but despite some...
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Password protection
Institution-specific passwords for online access to scholarly journals are neither technologically necessary nor financially defensible. They blatantly undermine university researchers' traditional...
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Public proof
"Engage the selfish gene" (18 March), which discussed how public engagement can boost research careers, referred to "the lack of quantitative data on the topic".In fact, there have been two...
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Blameless performance
On behalf of the board of management at the Kingston City Group (KCG) consortium, I write to correct some misunderstandings that appear to have arisen with respect to our part in the concerns at...
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S-club riven
I am inordinately proud of the fact that I went to the University of Exeter, and I consider that its vice-chancellor, Steve Smith, has two excellent points in his favour: his first name (although the...
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Post-mortem payout
In his letter last week, Robert Poole argues that "we need other grounds for judging the likelihood of life occurring elsewhere in the Universe" than mere probability ("Sample of one", 25 March). But...
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Fawlty reasoning
Why did Times Higher Education think it appropriate to announce a story about Germany providing extraordinary support to its students studying abroad as "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles" (...
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Comedy nirvana 1
What a hoot to see you've introduced a new satirical column in THE ("Tenure - nirvana for the lazy", 18 March). Suresh Goyal's musings on the academy as nirvana had my colleagues and me howling with...
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Comedy nirvana 2
S.K. Goyal does not work more than "35 hours per week" and is "one of the hard workers"? I wonder if his colleagues agree. I can't recall the last time I worked only 35 hours in a week - including...
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It was fun while it lasted
Both vice-chancellors and academics enjoyed healthy pay rises in 2008-09, although they may seem a distant memory to those now feeling the pinch. Using an exclusive analysis by Grant Thornton, John...