A united future
We should remember that 95 per cent of lecturers' union Natfhe and 80 per cent of Association of University Teachers members voted in favour of forming the University and College Union. Members want...
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Got a bigger sample?
Jim Foulds, chair of the Higher Education Safety Forum, takes The Times Higher to task for reporting a study of university stress based on a sample of "only" 1,000 respondents (Letters, February 9)....
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It's not about the 'ist'
With regard to June Purvis's letter (February 9), if she and her friends had not intervened to attack my article on interpretations of suffragette history even before it had been published, readers...
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Research is the key
Lee Harvey (Letters, February 9) is right to scorn williseemytutor.com. The site is absurd, crude and illiterate. But he makes a poor point in relation to postgraduates and their teaching....
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Don't stop funding
I'm appalled that the British Academy is planning to halt funding to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq for its work with Iraqi scholars and the rebuilding of the country's heritage ("Middle...
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Taboo in the review
In his choleric review of our book Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (February 9), Roy Harris has a right to disagree with our wide definition of taboo - but we do at least define...
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Get set for wardrobe assessing exercise
Academics have suffered jokes about their fashion sense, or the lack of it, for a long time, but a TV makeover show is now taking the matter seriously, writes Anthea Lipsett. The BBC's What Not to...
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'My work bridges the gap between science and clinical applications'
Peter Hall has been given a rare accolade by the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland Most people assume that pathology professor Peter Hall cuts up dead bodies. But Professor Hall, who...
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On the move...
Tim Unwin , professor of geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been appointed programme director of the World Economic Forum's Partnerships for Education initiative. Brighton...
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South secures research cash
North slates skewed system of biomedical funding allocation. Rebecca Attwood reports. Champions of England's northern universities this week blasted health chiefs for pouring biomedical research...
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Course to help funeral directors polish graveside manner
Bath University could soon be offering a foundation degree for funeral directors, writes Rebecca Attwood. The university, which is home to the UK's only centre devoted to the study and research of...
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UK giving culture is in Stone Age, says Lampl
Universities in the UK are in the Stone Age when it comes to alumni fundraising, according to the multimillionaire education philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl, writes Rebecca Attwood. Sir Peter,...
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Next week
Are the fat cats getting fatter? Discover what your vice-chancellor earns in our pay table Plus Find out about the latest teaching aids in the Spring Textbook Guide
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Bollywood dreams
Sedate Winchester and the glitzy Bollywood film industry would seem to have little in common, but a new programme run by the city's university could change that. Staff and students at Winchester...
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Healthy involvement
Hertfordshire University's Centre for Mental Health Recovery discussed a new approach to treating mental illness this week. The centre played host to the second meeting of the Eastern Region Mental...