Alan Ryan
This is a season that tries the spirit. It's not just the inescapability of seasonal affective disorder, though how anyone in latitudes north of Watford survives the lightlessness of January and...
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Leader: Vocational myth and hard reality
Parity of esteem between academic and vocational courses is one of the recurring obsessions of English education. The feeling is less pronounced in Scotland, where the two traditions are more closely...
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Leader: Help is vital to hit target
The new brief for the Higher Education Funding Council for England is surprisingly precise about the areas in which the Government would wish to see expansion. Workplace learning - last year's...
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UCU on Israel: not in our names
The University and College Union's response to the all-party parliamentary report on anti-Semitism - our new union's first pronouncement on this matter - is evasive, disingenuous and complacent.J In...
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Jamboree invite lost
Tim Birkhead again provides witty and insightful comments on how the corporate culture is destroying universities (Working Knowledge, January 12). Of particular resonance is his criticism of the use...
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Audit concerns
The startling tabloid headline above the article about the Quality Assurance Agency's institutional audit of York St John University is seriously misleading ("QAA queries leadership at York St John...
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Interdisciplinary read
We are reassured that The Times Higher has not abandoned its policy of commissioning reviews of books in the field of media and cultural studies from reviewers who have absolutely no understanding of...
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True cost of mergers
Adrian Monck argues (Opinion, December 22/29) that, like companies, universities should be subject to mergers and acquisitions to become more efficient and customer-focused. Unfortunately, he is...
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Market not a factor
Whatever the benefits and risks of transferring funding for initial education in nursing to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, it is not the case that in medicine the market decides ("...
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Wrinklies' lead ceiling
I sympathise with the (unnamed) senior lecturer who wants to have the option of working beyond 65 on account of the fact that she did not start her first full-time appointment until she was 36 ("...
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Time to learn lessons
Sally Hunt's statements about the pay dispute continue to miss the point ("Hustings brings out anger over pay dispute", January 12). It is a shame that she is unwilling to learn any lessons about the...
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Go for average points
I remain baffled at the discourse deployed and the solutions proposed in relation to the "problem" discussed in your story "Concern at rise in top degrees" (January 12). The problem is not grade...
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Bad review
Readers will learn little about my book, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men , from John Smith's narrow-minded and mean-spirited review (October 6). But they will get a sense of what led...
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Creativity of two cultures
Scientists can be just as imaginative and intuitive as poets, and expressive writing allows both to unlock valuable insights, says David Morley. Creative reading is the open secret of creative...
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A global calamity the world forgot
The flu pandemic of 1918-19 claimed at least 50 million lives, yet only recently has its devastation and aftermath been studied. Guy Beiner examines a strange case of worldwide amnesia In 1918 and...