Heads of Department Question New Ruling
Following the recent ruling by an independent adjudicator that student Christian societies should be open to non-Christians and wine societies open to teetotallers, it appears likely that this...
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Leader: Cheap deals Down Under?
Universities in Australasia have never been timid about promoting themselves to overseas students. They have long been aggressive - and successful competitors to UK institutions for the large and...
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Leader: Take danger seriously
Few would compare the risks faced by academics with those faced on a daily basis by police officers, firefighters or, sadly nowadays, A&E staff and secondary school teachers. Yet what is...
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Crossing swords over salaries 1
The arguments presented by the employers against national pay bargaining ("Pay talks face radical reform", July ) are disingenuous. Any university is free to establish its grading structure at will,...
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Crossing swords over salaries 2
National bargaining is not only about pay but also about terms and conditions of employment. The national contract is fundamental to the health, safety and wellbeing of academic staff in post-92...
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Crossing swords over salaries 3
It is outrageous for an unnamed vice-chancellor to say: "The issue is how long we can continue having settlements in which pay goes up but there is no corresponding increase in productivity." What we...
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Crossing swords over salaries 4
The article "UCU set to fight any pay window" (July 20) may have confused some readers about the details of the current three-year pay deal. First, the agreement is for three years and has no clause...
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Crossing swords over salaries 5
There is little doubt that national pay bargaining is under considerable strain after last year's damaging dispute, and it will require not only commitment and goodwill but an effective mandate and...
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Business cashes in 1
On April 22, 1988, The Times Higher published a letter from Malcolm Pearson, then treasurer of the Council for National Academic Awards, in which he argued that the council should "firmly grasp the...
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Business cashes in 2
The predictable enthusiasm of Government and university managements for the business-oriented aspects of the Leitch report ("Embrace Leitch or lose out to FE, sector warned", July 20) needs to be...
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UCU snubs concerns
Gert Weisskirchen is the representative of the chairman-in-office on combating anti-Semitism for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Weisskirchen, who is a professor, social...
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Calling all RAE rejects
May I ask academics who have found themselves unexpectedly excluded from the research assessment exercise to write to me at: castaway@brookes.ac.uk . It seems to me there could be many of us who...
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English advances
Fiona Hyslop's article ("Scotland's learning nation widens its reach", July 20) just hints at some of the difficulties Scotland will face thanks to the recent decision of the Scottish Parliament to...
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Is there a gene for racism?
The questions of a biological basis for racist behaviour and for religion were key issues in a debate at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study devoted to the legacy of Charles Darwin....
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Sacré bleu
Religion is linked to genocide and jihad and is at odds with the Enlightenment, says Michel Onfray, but he still engages with believers, he tells Julian Baggini In recent years, it has somehow become...