Leader: Diplomat needed for thankless job
Being the most powerful person in higher education can be a thankless task. Sir Howard Newby, the departing chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, was ultimately in...
Being the most powerful person in higher education can be a thankless task. Sir Howard Newby, the departing chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, was ultimately in...
Little, it seems, divides academics more than the issue of costly car parking. One union official contends that parking, even more than pay, guarantees packed meetings of academics debating the...
Although Denis Alexander makes some superficially reasonable criticisms of Richard Dawkins's programme The Root Of All Evil? ("The devil within Dawkins", February 3), he has fundamentally...
The article by Denis Alexander was well written and argued in a scientific way, raising issues that even a rudimentary PhD student would be aware of. This is in stark contrast to the television...
Surely Richard Dawkins has been exposed for the true demon he is - no self-respecting scientist will listen to or associate with him again. Perhaps he has done us a favour after all. William Banks...
So some university personnel chiefs are suggesting stopping the wages of staff if they take part in industrial action that affects assessment ("Threat to seize pay over exam boycott, February 3)....
If employers are going to take us off the payroll for taking industrial action, I propose a week of strike action beginning October 29, 2007. That would require employers to have removed us from...
In a week when the science of climate change (the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' publication Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change ) and its fictional counterpart (the ITV1 drama...
It is an odd experience to read in a reputable newspaper of a world you know well described in terms that are virtually unrecognisable. That was my experience of your stories about Oxford University...
The Oxford student contract was born several years ago from a laudable wish to ensure that students know the terms of the contract that exists between a student and a university. In the case of...
The quotes from New Age Thinking ("Staff unready for new age challenges, survey says", February 3) were taken out of context and imply that age stereotyping is unique to the higher education sector....
I was surprised that no one took issue with the statement in "It's hard to count on statisticians" (January ) that "even a social scientist would admit that number-crunching is one of the least...
The caption under my photo accompanying the article about the late Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi ("He did all that was possible - he saved 150 Jews", January ) quoted me as saying: "There is a...
For a long time now, I, my late mother and many others who owe their lives to the infinite humanity and courage of Andrei Sheptytskyi have been campaigning for Yad Vashem to acknowledge that he is...
The letter "Unchanging times" (January ) complains that when universities move away from the use of fixed-term contracts for researchers this makes good headlines but is "functionally irrelevant"....