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Who got that job?
Stuart Walker. Co-director Imagination@Lancaster, Lancaster University. Position advertised in The Times Higher , October 20, 2006 Stuart Walker must have one of the widest yet least tangible...
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Postdocs embittered by lack of career prospects
Only one in seven research assistants progresses to a principal investigator post. Melanie Newman reports. More career support is needed for the "embittered lost tribe" of postdoctoral researchers...
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Flexible working strike call
The University and College Union at Southampton University is holding a consultative ballot of its members on possible industrial action over workloads, writes Melanie Newman. The union will ask...
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Critical value judgements
From: The Vice-Chancellor Dear Doctor Noakes, You will remember that I wrote to you last year pointing out that you had made a number of remarks in your first-year lectures which suggested that you...
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Leader: We must guard the right to say the unthinkable
Two recent events on either side of the Atlantic have done little to iterate academe's commitment to free speech. Earlier this month, the University of California withdrew an invitation to former...
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'So what is the bias in the system? It is simple. It is
John Denham is a highly intelligent and very decent man. He was one of the few ministers to seemingly throw away a ministerial career at the time of the ill-judged attack on Iraq. Nonetheless, his...
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Safeguard final-salary pension 1
Your account of University UK's report on the future of the sector's pension arrangements ("Final-salary pension in peril", October 19) contains some worrying features. Much of UUK's report seems to...
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Funding flaws
Many of my colleagues are passionate about the need to address inequality of access to higher education. At first sight, Bill Rammell ("Why first-time students come first", October 12) makes a...
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Not all men are evil 1
Joanna Bourke ("Men, too, must work to take back the night") seems to be unfamiliar with the words "alleged" and "not guilty". I look on in dismay at the sight of what seems to be an otherwise...
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Degrees of fashion 1
There is a simpler solution than the Burgess report to the problems of a degree classification that is "not fit for purpose", and the associated issue of grade inflation: bring back sit-down closed...
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Research hobbyist
Dave Delphy, new chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, cites Michael Faraday in connection with the value of fundamental research ("Applying the great lesson of...
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He who pays the piper
The recent visit of Lords Denham and Adonis to University College London in an attempt to bolster support for the proposed Camden Academy should serve as a warning to all working in higher education...
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Safeguard final-salary pension 2
Recently the Government, in agreement with the unions, introduced new pension rules but retained final-salary schemes. The Times Higher now reports that the Universities and Colleges Employers...
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Not all men are evil 2
There are some topics on which writers ought to take particular care not to risk appearing prejudiced. It was a pity therefore that Joanna Bourke's article contained the sentence: "Men are getting...