Feel the pulse of the inner city beat
John Hegley, with a little help from Steve, inspires streetwise students to put their thoughts into verse and to write about dogs and deckchairs Today I am booked to visit Southwark College in London...
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The law of averages produces poor results
Our honours classification system is an anachronism. It is an inadequate judge of ability and must go, says Mantz Yorke Why do 17 per cent of students of engineering and physical sciences obtain...
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Sing it - funding has just got funky
Fame inspires Kevin Fong to don his leg warmers and revitalise the academy. Get ready for your RAE star jump - it's time to break a sweat Fame costs and right here's where you start paying - in sweat...
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Today's news
Students killed in clash at a Beirut university Students for and against the government hurled rocks and furniture at each other today as Lebanon's power struggle turned violent on a university...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Last week's Letters page in The Times Higher contained complaints about unsatisfactory book reviews. In the interests of comprehensiveness, we now bring you a further selection of critical...
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Leader: If you can't beat them, blog them
Universities are coming to terms with the internet, but its dizzying pace of change still presents them with one of their greatest challenges. American institutions, in particular, are petrified by...
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Leader: Answer to the 'experts'
This week's row over whether the suffragettes should be considered terrorists will soon be forgotten, but the exchanges are significant for what they say about the relationship between academics and...
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Will minority voice speak for UCU? 1
Sally Hunt's campaigning piece (Opinion, January 19) only touches on the main battle that will be fought in the coming University and College Union elections. It is true, as she says, that the...
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Will minority voice speak for UCU? 2
I was interested in Sally Hunt's response to the anger over the handling of the higher education pay dispute ("Hustings bring out anger over pay dispute", January 12). It boils down to this: union...
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School in crisis 1
Birmingham University and College Union is extremely concerned at the situation in the School of Health Sciences and is dismayed that the university's response fails to acknowledge the extent of the...
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School in crisis 2
Your article about the School of Health Sciences at Birmingham University contains a response by the university.JThis says that the two stress reports were confidential "other than to its senior...
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Bogus metric unused
Milton Wainwright (Letters, January 19) asks: "Can someone tell us the name of the philistine who suggested the use of this bogus metric (journal impact factor) to determine research quality?" Well,...
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Can't define freedom
We can't usefully discuss academic freedom without considering the forces arrayed against it. These include: managerialism - the essence of which is to put those in authority against those promoting...
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What about the men?
I was somewhat confused by the claim that professorial posts "elude" women, and the quote that a "glass ceiling effect is still evident" ("Sex parity 50 years off", January 19). According to the...
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Lost in translation
Your report on the University of Central England's research bemoaning media undergraduates' lack of critical readiness ("Students unable to cope with media studies' rigour", January 19) lost much in...