Peep's diary
Denham's not mad enough Some say politics is just showbusiness for ugly people and, like showbiz personalities, there's nothing politicians hate more than being ignored. So spare a thought for John...
Search
-
-
Boomers in thrall to a Wiki Universe
Beware the digi-swingers who deem librarians redundant and confuse information with knowledge, says Tara Brabazon. As a Generation Xer, I have spent much of my life working for baby- boomer men....
-
Campus is the place for corporate climbers
Increasingly, the private sector is turning to academia for executive training programmes. Sally Watson explains why. There has been a growing trend for companies to invest in customised leadership...
-
Average academic's pay moves ahead to £42K
Increase of more than 25 per cent over six years is greater than the rest of public sector. Melanie Newman reports. Academics' pay has risen more than a quarter since 2001, according to government...
-
Who got that cash?
A cosmologist investigating the accelerating expansion of the universe is one of the high-flying young researchers to win a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize. Will Percival, senior research fellow...
-
Where quality counts
British Journal of Comparative Research Measurement Volume 26. No. 143 November 2007 Author: Gordon Lapping BA, University of Poppleton "Whither bibliometric quality measurements? The case for the...
-
"What is the most important right guaranteed by the US constitution?"
Like the Chicago River after the sewerage engineers got at it, the brain drain, I suspect, now flows in reverse. The collapse of the dollar makes it more likely that leading US academics will seek...
-
Lights out for lifelong learning? 1
John Denham is right ("Let's turn the spotlight on all our young talent", November 9). But how sad that he so underestimates the starkness of the challenge we face. Of course it is right to nurture...
-
Social sciences lose 1
Your publication of The Times Higher -QS World University Rankings (November 9) again provides evidence of the increasing strength and global competitiveness of UK higher education and provides a...
-
Go short term on RAE 1
Eric Thomas correctly asks for extensive academic input into the shaping of the new research assessment exercise ("Add input to make metrics count", November 9). The single most important factor...
-
4GLS leapfrog
Your report on the decision not to proceed with the fourth-generation light source (4GLS) rightly draws attention to the disappointment felt by scientists at the Daresbury laboratory and in the...
-
Apprenticeship myths 1
There are perhaps 100,000 level 3 apprentices in the UK with a target for 400,000 by 2020. Few apprentices are guaranteed employment as they were in 1968 when a quarter of male school-leavers...
-
It's a student thing
Jackie Sherman is mistaken if she believes universities are in a position to "put their students' unions and halls of residence in order" (Letters, November 9). Students' unions are membership...
-
From where I stand .. 1
There's an old Will Hay film that contains the following exchange: Teacher: "Come now, boys - the Earth's not flat." Pupil: "It is where I live." I was reminded of this by your headline "Faith is no...
-
Lights out for lifelong learning? 2
John Denham is still being ?silly. He says he wants the university system to be representative; who doesn’t? What the intake of the most selective places “represents” is those who on the evidence of...