Leader: No need to rush to a quick fix
Critics of the research assessment exercise who insisted that its results could easily be replicated through metrics must be eating their words as they pore over this week's working group report....
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Leader: Summer of discontent
Only one poll counts towards the resolution of the pay dispute between academics and their employers - the ballot of University and College Union members. But neither union leaders nor employers can...
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A good deal on offer or a sellout? 1
While it is clear that the pay offer being put to a ballot of University and College Union members falls short of the 23 per cent demanded by the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, it is...
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A good deal on offer or a sellout? 2
It was disappointing to see the rather negative coverage of the recent pay deal ("Pay deal could mean job cuts", June 9), particularly as all sides had worked so hard to reach a positive conclusion....
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A good deal on offer or a sellout? 3
The present pay deal looks more like an armistice than peace, but next time round there must be no harming of students. In view of the huge increase in administration and bureaucracy that top-down...
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A good deal on offer or a sellout? 4
This settlement is regarded as a sellout and a betrayal by those of us who fought long and hard on the ground. We are not radical "spartists". We are experienced academics with a knowledge of both...
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A good deal on offer or a sellout? 5
Universities are set to receive a substantial increase in income over the next three years through government initiatives. What is in dispute is how this extra funding, together with the annual...
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A good deal on offer or a sellout? 6
If the deal achieved by the union is accepted in the ballot of members, the last nail will be driven into both the coffin of the UCU and that of the British university system. It's taken some 14...
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Click to communicate
Cardiff Business School's advert for a lectureship in leadership skills is conspicuous for stating that "the ability to communicate effectively with excellent PowerPoint presentation skills is...
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Radical recruitment
The news that Luton University has plans "to grow staff" is amazing ("Pay deal could mean job cuts", June 9). Should Les Ebdon be shortlisted for a Nobel prize? Crispin Partridge Hertfordshire
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Naive, not unethical
I am among the very few people to know both Arpad Pusztai and Andrew Wakefield personally. From my limited knowledge of them, I believe both to be men of integrity. But that does not excuse their...
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Missing table leg?
The article "Change in rankings as expert group sets principles" (June 9) states that recent rises in participation have been attributable to women. That is only half the story. A major driver has...
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Israel's fair funding
In his response to my opinion piece about the Natfhe boycott of Israeli universities (May 26), David Lehmann claims that Israel discriminates in funding against Arab schools (Letters, June 2). He is...
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Fight for free speech
Even at the highest level in higher education, the notion of academic freedom is often profoundly misunderstood. Academic freedom is freedom granted against work that falls within a given discipline...
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Take one 'uni in a box' and add a pioneer spirit
Despair over Africa is common, but a school for entrepreneurs offers school-leavers hope, says Richard Branson Millions of African children do not get the chance to go to primary school, and...