Among the first 23 fellowships awarded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are a handful to academics (pages 20-21). These have gone not to young people with talent and a...
David Blunkett unveils a seven-point plan to bring more people from all backgrounds into higher education. At the University of Greenwich earlier this year, I spelt out my determination that the...
The Whistleblower investigation on the Hull University Business School (THES, May 5) was old news that both trivialised and personalised, obscuring the real issues. In the public expenditure cuts of...
The clear support of Malcolm Wicks, minister responsible for the Department for Education and Employment's research strategy, for scholarly independence and integrity is welcome (Soapbox, THES, May 5...
It is indeed high time for the government to take a lead in settling the issue of the visitor ("Visitors may have outstayed welcome", THES, May 5). There is an argument (as yet untested in the courts...
The Quality Assurance Agency's retreat from the Dearing recommendation that students should have access to an "independent" and "external" system to review complaints and appeals is not justified by...
John Akker's article ("Refugee academics deserve your support", THES, April 28) was timely. He is not alone in criticising the illiberal effects of the government's refugee and asylum legislation....
As an Association of University Teachers-appointed director of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I have followed with interest recent exchanges in The THES on pensions. Sarah Oates (Letters,...
I am surprised that there appears to be so much misunderstanding as to USS pension benefits. I would indeed have been delighted on retirement 18 months ago to have received a tax-free, six-figure...
The USS offers a low-cost, totally risk-free, index-linked income in retirement - plus additional death in service benefits, dependants' pensions and ill-health provision. It can offer these benefits...
It is worth examining what befell many who retired with benefits from the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities. This was a defined-contribution scheme that was the forerunner of the USS....
In reviewing my book, Environmental Democracy (THES, March 31), Fred Pearce claims that my discussion of human rights violations in Karen State, Burma relies exclusively on a single newspaper source...
In Raphael Salkie's review of the Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics (THES, March 31), he appears to endorse uncritically the book's conclusion that research proves that "the formal...
The Nuffield inquiry has suggested that a foreign language should be a prerequisite for university study. Frank Burdett disagrees. Two days ago the Nuffield languages inquiry, chaired by Sir Trevor...
Serbian authorities have blamed the pro-democracy student movement Odpor (Resistance) for allegedly shooting at a supporter of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Odpor's spokesmen, however, deny the...