Warden New College, Oxford I am taking off to California for 2002-03. That is not much of a news item. Even in these straitened times, most academics take one year off in seven as sabbatical leave....
In her final editorial, Auriol Stevens argues that higher education has delivered, now it's up to the government to pay for its policies From the cutting edge of research to the frontiers of wider...
Exams are almost over and exam boards loom. At my university we encourage undergraduates to ask for extenuating circumstances to be taken into consideration. The evidence is pouring in. This group...
The pseudonymous Mr Brogan ("Part-time post: long hours, atrocious pay", THES , May 17) is lucky to have any teaching and visiting lectureships at all - chance would be a fine thing. And £12 an hour...
Sara Parkin argues that the government is not promoting education for sustainable development (Opinion, THES , May 17). Which government? The Welsh Assembly has a constitutional commitment to...
Wendy Piatt's contribution to the tuition-fee debate (Soapbox, THES , May 24) left me asking: what do they research at the Institute for Public Policy Research? Not economics and logic. But Piatt did...
Since 1992, universities such as Plymouth have worked to broaden the research base in higher education and move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to develop new areas of interdisciplinary...
Andrew Oswald says that the meaning of the word "university" is being despoiled by policy-making ("A victim of vocabulary", THES , May 24). Reasserting the university as a research-based organisation...
We risk losing the meaning of "university" amid financial pressures and widening participation. "Mass" support for preserving meaning and a rejection of the juggling of research required by the...
Geoffrey Sampson says his comments on race "were informed by years of study of Chinese civilisation" ("Professor under fire for racist views", THES , May 17). No work by him has come before any...
I sympathise with my academic peers (Letters, THES , May 24). With only the feature "Sink schools" ( THES , May 17) to go on, I, too, might conclude that I was narcissistic, envious and fearful. But...
As women are frequent casualties of departments playing the research assessment exercise lottery, it is good to see their achievements being honoured in the national teaching fellowship awards (For...
Employers do not understand what higher education is if the Council for Industry and Higher Education survey comments are to be believed ("Involve employers in making graduates employable", THES ,...
So universities need to teach working-class students social and life skills so that they may earn as much as their middle-class peers ("'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills", THES , May 17...
I take offence at comments by Richard Brown, CIHE chief executive. I was the first from my working-class family to go to university. I learnt to wash at an early age, and my social skills are better...