Letter: Hidden assets 1
As an administrator, I was delighted, at last, to read something about the admin side of higher education ("Underpaid, overlooked", THES , November 16). But I take issue with the term "non-academic"...
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Letter: Hidden assets 2
I wholeheartedly agree with Val Atkinson in her splendid article and I'm sure there is a "Maureen" in every school, faculty and department throughout the country. The problem for universities will...
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Letter: Hidden assets 3
Valerie Atkinson's article rings true. Most departmental secretaries are graduates with high-level, wide-ranging capabilities in IT, webpages, interpersonal skills, departmental PR etc. Additionally...
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Letter: An offer to refuse 1
After reading Ron Iphofen's proposed contract (Soapbox, THES , November 9), any potential PhD student considering taking up a place would be justified in saying: "No thanks, I'll go somewhere where I...
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Letter: An offer to refuse 2
Please thank Ron Iphofen, and Rachel Brookes and David Dennison (Readers' reactions, THES , November 16) for a tailor-made teaching material for our postgraduate research student generic training...
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Letter: Poor policies
Kenneth Baker, who opposes graduate tax (Opinion, THES , November 16), has not woken up to the fact that most graduates no longer vote Tory because of its policy on the issue. Even so, he is right....
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Letter: What price success?
Annette Zera, principal of Tower Hamlets College, says the leadership model proposed for further education "appears to rely hugely on audit and bureaucracy combined with fairly damning criticism. We...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 1
Staff at the University of Wolverhampton are off sick with stress. This is not the news that any vice-chancellor wants to acknowledge and yet Tony Tysome correctly identifies a problem of stress-...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 2
I agree that "it's a painful time to be in the minority" (Features, THES , November 16), especially when minority ethnic student numbers are rising and widening participation strategies abound, yet...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 3
Helen Hague's article assumes that all ethnic minority staff are black and everyone else is white. Such polarisation is at the heart of racism. How disappointing that a report on initiatives to...
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Leader: Free researchers from hand that feeds them
The Economic and Social Research Council held its annual meeting last week under the title Mind the Gap: The Role of Social-Science Research in Policy-making. The meeting, while stuffed with...
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Leader: Creating a new elite will damage whole sector
It is (at last) universally acknowledged that higher education needs more money - for research, pay, students and infrastructure. If extra cash is not forthcoming, disappointment will compound the...
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A past laid out upon a table
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks tells his great-niece Eugenie Samuels why in his latest book he felt compelled to revisit his childhood. Eugenie Samuels : Uncle Tungsten is the first one of your...
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Academic freedom versus the last taboo
After claims that a sociologist abused research into paedophilia, Olga Wojtas looks at the case for a code of conduct. Next month, Glasgow University's senate is expected to discuss an investigation...
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They are not dumb - which is why they're quitting academe
Lack of stimulation at undergraduate level discourages intellectuals from a scholarly life, argues Frank Furedi. A couple of years ago, when I complained about the diminishing intellectual content of...