The author of a new book on the Olympics and tourism says London has much to gain from hosting the Games. The Sydney Olympics in 2000 were a hit, the Athens games in 2004 a botched job and Beijing...
With the Aga Khan's aid, the highlands of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic will soon boast an ambitious three-campus university. David Shariamadari reports. Building a new university...
Universities must focus more on adults, employers and market needs, Mike Campbell argues. Our prosperity depends on how many people are in work and how productive they are. In fact, productivity...
From: The Deputy Head of Christmas arrangements Subject: Christmas arrangements 1. It appears that some members of staff are still using such phrases as "Christmas holidays" and "Christmas break" to...
'Too often, universities are giving in to the demands of religious lobbies, at the expense of precious principles'. The naming of furry animals, as T.S. Eliot reminds us in Old Possum's Book of...
The Government wants every secondary-school maths lesson to be taught by a teacher with a degree in maths. On the same principle, can a degree course be taught by teachers who have not practised the...
The "questions over whether the system should have a reliance on internal rotations" ("Sector fails to assist its former pro v-cs", December 7) should be asked about academic management roles...
Who has not been on the brink of staining students' work with cups of coffee ("Coffee rings are not best marks", December 7)? It is surprising it doesn't happen more often, given the need to stay...
I have many examples of the same publication being cited in four different ways (Letters, December 7). For instance, my first book, Adolescent Gambling , published in 1995, has more than 150...
Michael Bourn (Letters, December 7) suggests that the annual average earnings figure for "all professionals" from the Government's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings is not relevant in making...
The interests of business, centring as they do on maximising shareholders' profits, have nothing in common with those embodied by Western universities in their role of creating and fostering a nation...
Good for Andrew Sparkes ("'Bollocks': RAE paper assesses the RAE", December 7). The more challenges to the research assessment exercise the better. But Sparkes isn't alone. Last May, we published our...
I was struck by the dissimilarity of the language and writing style of the side-by-side articles by Alex Danchev and David Eastwood on the research assessment exercise and the research excellence...
At Barts and the London Medical School, we have been able to put into practice a learning experience suggested by one of our students ("Students to be 'change agents'", November 30). Emma Lightbody,...
I read the article on the Higher Education Funding Council for England Leadership, Governance and Management Strategic Committee's report with much amusement ("Staff loyalty key to Hefce report",...