Dear Maureen'Credit crunch' holiday on north-east coast going well. If it wasn't for foul weather and lamentable standards of food and accommodation, British seaside resorts would be envy of the...
Kevin Fong's clash with the beautiful game leaves him sick as a parrot
A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Terence Kealey reveals how hypocrisy, violence and torture in the America of George Washington have helped create the US...
Conventional wisdom says universities do rather well in a recession. Don't count on it this time, warns John Craven
Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.
Jon Dellandrea, the rock star of university fundraising, is standing down. John Gill reports
The article "Artistic licence" (31 July) implies it is only recent digital developments that are "forcing" art and design courses to reinvent themselves. British art schools have constantly...
It has become fashionable, in higher education as elsewhere, to complain about people's "leadership" when something is going on that you don't like. Thus, Paul Ramsden at the Higher Education Academy...
I was disappointed to note that it could be inferred from your magazine that a black member of our staff, Udy Archibong, was appointed to a chair in 2004 as some form of reward for withdrawing a...
We would like to make it clear that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is not "closing an avenue of study" in, or "declining to fund", certain areas of nanotechnology research ("...
In these days of marketing and competition for students, it is inevitable that Britain's universities will produce glossy material and state-of-the-art websites in the attempt to steal a march on...
Mary Evans's opinion piece about the politics of education ("Stranger than fiction: Harry Potter and the Order of the Entitled", 31 July) makes a few worthwhile points on the failure of new Labour's...
Higher education still displays the English class system red in tooth and claw more dramatically than any other sector of employment. All difference must magically be transformed into hierarchy. The...
Ken Smith proposes that "'we simply give everyone a break and accept these variant spellings" ("Just spell it like it is", 7 August). This sounds like an excellent response to feeling "fed up with...
So Ken Smith thinks we should accept spelling errors. He is mistaken - a word that is, curiously, an anagram of his own name. Well, not quite; but it is only one letter out, so presumably it does not...