Rights and wrongs of university pay points 4
Buried in your analysis of academic pay is the statement that the average salary for male professors is £66,282 while that for their female counterparts is £62,261. It is surely worth underlining...
Buried in your analysis of academic pay is the statement that the average salary for male professors is £66,282 while that for their female counterparts is £62,261. It is surely worth underlining...
Congratulations on a balanced article that highlights the Economic and Social Research Council's handling of a study of farmers' opinions on GM crops ("ESRC is criticised for 'biased' study", 13...
Philip Esler (Letters, 13 March) says that your report ("RCUK abandons impact formula", 6 March) and my opinion article ("What price knowledge?, 6 March), "exaggerate" the volte-face by Research...
John Brinnamoor asks for realism in the university prospectus ("Not quite as advertised: college scarves and shameless flannel", 13 March). He would do well to remember that tale by Borges about the...
It should be easy to find photogenic women on our campuses. A glance at media coverage every August - or even page 19 of the very issue of ߣߣÊÓÆµ in which John Brinnamoor writes -...
The possibility of universities "capping" or otherwise restricting - "vetting", "pre-selecting" - grant applications is clearly now on the horizon ("REF may lead to restrictions on grant applications...
So Alan Sokal (Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax, 13 March) continues to invite anyone who believes the laws of physics are "mere social conventions" to try jumping from his 21st-floor apartment. If...
Those of us who enjoy living and working in Norwich were astonished that the city was not near the top of your Halifax-ߣߣÊÓÆµ table for quality of life ("Where the grass is greener",...
May I suggest a simplified quality-of-life table. It has only three criteria, against which I rank my own institution. The first is low property prices - on this Wolverhampton scores well. The second...
Dame Fiona Caldicott, Principal of Somerville College, Oxford (Letters, 13 March), seems inadvertently to imply that the opponents of the proposed Joint Resource Allocation Mechanism cannot have...
In the article "Imperial signs Saudi deal as first step into Gulf" (13 March), we are told by the UK Higher Education International Unit that all academic staff are to engage with the process of...
Can there be a doubt about Poppleton's new logo (The Poppletonian, 13 March)? Surely it must be the triangle above the square to remind us all of the tireless efforts of Jamie Targett, going forward...

Are the institutes of advanced study being set up across the UK simply research hotels where academics can enjoy precious thinking time or evidence of a fundamental shift in cutting-edge research?...
Textbooks are hard to write, the rewards are few and e-books are at last coming of age. So what's the future for these essential companions, asks Matthew Reisz
Geza Vermes, author of Jesus the Jew, is yet again turning his formidable forensic skills on his former Christian religion, this time in the shape of the Resurrection. Matthew Reisz meets him to...