World Rankings 2006
World University Rankings Published in The Times Higher on 6 October 2006 The world's best guide to the standing of top universities Editorial: Global vision ensures healthy competition The elite...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Bullying rife in RAE run-up " - The Times Higher , October 21 From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor I understand there is some concern about the way that managers are treating members of staff...
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Leader: It's a matter of global opinion
When The Times Higher 's first world rankings appeared last year, we acknowledged that they were bound to be controversial and pledged that they would evolve with wider debate. There has been no...
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Leader: Sceptical about trusts
There have been examples, even in the UK, of universities running successful schools. Glasgow's highly popular Jordanhill School, for example, was run for many years by the college that now comprises...
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Clipped wings of a Welsh dragon
The recent and damaging Quality Assurance Agency report on the University of Wales found that the over-arching collegiate quality regime that ensures the standing of the awarded degree had been...
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No pillow talk on pay
Employers' leaders will have enjoyed Joe Sim's letter (October 10) claiming that the lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers leaderships are in bed with them. Employers...
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Courteous counsel
Your article on being an expert witness in court ("Try Kavanagh's wig on for size", October 21) put too much emphasis on what is needed to be an expert witness rather than what you should do if you...
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Do some real reading
Frank Furedi's column "Give them a little textual pleasure" was instructive and beautifully symptomatic (October 21). When I was an undergraduate in the 1980s, you read proper books. One read...
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Viva facts
Contrary to the report "Measures to keep vivas above board get positive results" (October 21), the department head at Lancas-ter University, not the student, selects whether the PhD viva is monitored...
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Tribunal trauma
You report that employers have seized on the figures that only one in 20 tribunal cases against universities ends in victory for the complainant "as proof that staff are treated much more fairly than...
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Poppleton-style PhD
Laurie Taylor's description of the "full PhD experience" in his University of Poppleton column of October 7, is a pretty accurate descrip-tion of the progress of my daughter's own doctoral research....
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What's the alternative?
Sir Peter Lampl makes good points about the need to research alternative ways of delivering information to admissions tutors (Soapbox, October 21). These apply as much to the UniTest as they do to...
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US accreditation
Your report on the US accreditation debate ("Diploma mills may gain from Katrina", October 21) sensationalises and misinterprets a serious issue. While most reputable US universities are accredited...
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When old masters battle with new mistresses
From Henry Moore to Andy Goldsworthy, Rembrandt to Gilbert and George, Paul Hill finds universities home to a remarkable collection of art. But as budgets shrink, he wonders how long before the...
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Italians in the cupboard...
...and other treasures that have inspired Charles Saumarez Smith I am a child of the university art gallery. Brought up outside Oxford, my most intense early experiences of art were of the early...