Wait a minute, Mr Postman!
Our vice-chancellor was yesterday forced to apologise to David Lammy, the new Minister for Higher Education, for what he described as "a most unfortunate clerical error".According to inside sources,...
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Cross purposes
Alan Ryan wishes John Denham would build bridges instead of picking fights
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Leader: Shift could endanger foundation
In offering colleges new powers, the Government could find that it damages the very qualifications it set out to improve and extend
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Christopher Bartlett, 1931-2008
Christopher Bartlett, a leading authority on British foreign policy and international relations, has died.He was born on 12 October 1931, was brought up in Dorset and was educated at Queen Elizabeth'...
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What counts and what doesn't in rankings? 1
How marvellously refreshing it was to read the glorious affirmation by the University of Chicago's Robert Zimmer that the whole and entire raison d'etre of his top-ranked university is "a singular...
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What counts and what doesn't in rankings? 2
You acknowledged last year that the ߣߣÊÓƵ-QS World University Rankings were not well suited to recognise the particular characteristics of institutions such as the London School of...
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Journalistic insights
Journalism has long been a target for lazy and ill-informed academics who have not experienced the demands of a newsroom. I do not believe that Bob Franklin and Julian Petley are among them, but...
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Bologna's masterstroke
You report that "across continental Europe, the masters is a research-intensive course aimed at preparing students for a PhD and a career in academia" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....
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A desiccated image
The article "Pack science off to revive the wellspring of creativity" (9 October) on the matter of the supply of young Asian scientists to the UK was let down by its illustration.Why two apparently...
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Minority positions
Congratulations to David Lammy on his appointment as the new Minister for Higher Education ("Lammy steps up to HE as Rammell is moved sideways", 9 October). I do hope that his appointment will...
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Union blues
To suggest that the University and College Union (UCU) leadership has somehow defied its members' wishes (Letters, 9 October) is disingenuous.The reason that the UCU currently has a clearly defined...
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Dismissive naturalism
I fear that James D. Williams (Letters, 9 October) may be confusing science with naturalism. Science pursues knowledge by following the evidence. Naturalism restricts itself by excluding the...
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Statistical lacunae
Despite what Mike Hill (Letters, 9 October) says about information on graduate prospects, the statistics are far from ideal. There are a number of problems with variables depending on the type of...
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A cite for citation study
Further to the article "REF could penalise those working across disciplines" (2 October), we wish to clarify that the study was conducted by Jonathan Levitt with the help of Mike Thelwall. The study...
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University of Sussex - Higher and deeper thoughts
An ߣߣÊÓƵn professor will discuss how to account for the post-1960s "theory boom" in academic humanities in a lecture at the University of Sussex this month. Ian Hunter, assistant director of the...