Pay spending lags behind
UK universities rank below the OECD average in the proportion of funding they spend on salaries and their student-to-staff ratios are high. Tony Tysome reports. The UK spends a lower proportion of...
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Tesco to fund green research
A 77-member research team investigating green issues is to be created by Manchester University using a £25 million donation from supermarket giant Tesco, writes Tony Tysome. Following confirmation of...
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Who got that cash?
A chance discovery led cell biologist Stephen Royle away from neuroscience to cell division, with the chance to find out more about the basic processes that lead to cancer. With the first Career...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Universities report re-sit chaos" - The Times, September 2007 Ah, Martin. There you are. You've come to find out the results of your re sits? That's right, Professor Lapping. You're wanting to know...
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'If Justinian had been right to think that buggery brought on earthquakes, you'd have been right to protest against its eventual decriminalisation'
It was one of the many curiosities of teaching graduate students in the US that whenever we turned to discussing Mill's essay On Liberty , they would spend all their time trying to imagine ways in...
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Leader: The best, the brightest and the brutal truth
Of all the troubling statistics uncovered by the Sutton Trust's report into elite schools' domination of research universities (page 4), this is the most shocking: a third more pupils are admitted to...
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Oxford-Man opens
Oxford University officially opened its Oxford-Man Institute this week. The institute, set up with a contribution of £13.75 million from Man Group, the hedge-fund company, is intended "to become the...
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Second degrees are vital asset 1
The Government's decision to discontinue funding for students with an existing degree who take a second equivalent or lower qualification ("Denham stands by funding cuts", September 14) is depressing...
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Second degrees are vital asset 2
One, possibly unintended, consequence of the Government's decision to stop providing funding for "repeat" qualifications is that it could prevent many education professionals who already have masters...
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Fee-market thinking
Giles Hooper makes a good point in response to Anna Vignoles' batty idea that we should charge more for arts and social sciences than for science and engineering because employers value the latter...
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It's not worthless
Thom Brooks says that "worthless staff development programmes impact on my work far more than learning names" (Letters, September 14). If staff development is for the pursuit of learning,...
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Teaching paths
Bristol University's initiative to provide a career "pathway" for its teachers ("Bristol opens career path to give teachers equal footing", September 14) is welcome, but its proposals raise important...
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Save the dropouts
Before getting too satisfied about the results of the National Student Survey, we should remember that the sample is only of those students who survived to their final year ("Students: yes, we're...
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Listen to lone voices
In her attack on Aids dissenters ("The fanaticism of denial that must be exposed", September 14), Tara Smith skirts over a fundamental problem for scientists, namely how to recognise when the...
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Mind your language 1
The debate over appropriate standards of English in a globalised world is getting stuck: the speakers are talking at cross-purposes. As Charles Owen points out (Letters, September 14), situational...