Balancing teaching and research
THREE cheers for Alan Jenkins's suggestion (THES, April 18) that universities should professionalise HE teaching, not least by planning for quality and not simply reacting to TQA audits. This is the...
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Balancing teaching and research
IN TRADITIONAL modernist cultures of higher education, research and teaching have become separated. These two activities are viewed as oppositional, orchestrated by the RAE, and there are now moves...
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Balancing teaching and research
I WISH to support, from a "vocational" subject area and a "new" university, the views of Philip Cerny (THES, April 18). Our profession, if allowed to operate without the sort of interference and...
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Balancing teaching and research
PHILIP Cerny is wrong in putting the research versus teaching debate solely in terms of whether teachers do or do not carry out research. Equally important is to seek proper recognition for...
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Blowing up statues
PAULA MURPHY, in her opening paragraph on the demolition of statues in Dublin (THES, April 11) invests the whole proceedings with a national fervour which is somewhat at variance with the various...
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Hungarian breach
I HAVE not read the Romanian 1994 Education Act, but from my experience of the University of Cluj/Kolozsv r the proposed creation of a Hungarian language faculty of law within this university (THES,...
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The mighty underdogs
WHAT A pleasure it was to see my honest colleague, Jim Bulpitt, write in your pages about his decision to vote Tory in the forthcoming election with such unremitting frivolity (THES, April 18). How I...
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Students at ballot box
BY GIVING the percentage of students in constituencies to two decimal places (eg 14.92 per cent in Leeds Northwest) (THES, April 18) you suggest that student numbers can be estimated accurately to...
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Virtual minefield
MYCONCERN about Niall Ferguson's counterfactual history is its likely misuse (THES, April 4). Virtual history will be used to try and legitimise the revival of policy or political ideology that has...
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Don's diary
Monday. I join the Royal Research Ship Discovery in the port of Vigo, Spain. Meet the old and a few new faces in the ship's crew and the other scientists sailing with me. It is a multicultural...
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Regions in search of an identity
When the polytechnics became the latest wave of new universities in 1992 there was a scramble to retain or adopt an attractive city title. But as many of the older universities had already...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you haveto identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an old Roman who rode the streets of his city once again last week aftera...
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Heart-felt prayers
Coronary patients are to be the subject of an experiment to find out if there really is power in prayer. Russell Stannard asks should God be put to the test? Do prayers for sick people work? We might...
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Plenty of stones still unturned
Safety on North Sea oil platforms is beinghampered by free market philosophy, argues Charles Woolfson A recent government inspection of the Piper Bravo oil platform, off the Scottish coast, revealed...
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Lucky losers
Huw Richards quizzes the academic losers of previous elections about what might have been.. If parallel universes exist there is probably one in which Pat Seyd rather than Tony Blair is about to...