Laurie Taylor column
From: The Office of the President (formerly Vice-Chancellor) Subject: Nomenclature Revision As you may be aware, Warwick University has decided to break away from centuries of tradition and rename...
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Leader: It's time to act on contract staff
When the Association of University Teachers held its annual meeting on fixed-term staff last week, one workshop proved particularly popular. It was the session dedicated to preparing for July 10,...
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Leader: High cost of a prose job
What amounts to cheating? When is help for students too much help? The answers are not clear, as the latest row over the "spoon-feeding" of students shows. Providing students with lists of...
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Just a black-and-white issue? 1
Unlike your previous correspondents on black-white IQ differences (Letters, March 31), we are specialists on this subject. For nearly 100 years, the data have shown that in dozens of studies...
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Just a black-and-white issue? 2
The suspension of Frank Ellis by Leeds University reflects the weakness of the academic community as it submits to institutional mob rule. Those who condemn Ellis should disprove his assertations,...
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Just a black-and-white issue? 3
As a black member of staff at Leeds University, I find it heartening that the majority of students and academics seem to hold the view that responsible race relations and acade-mic freedom "are not...
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Just a black-and-white issue? 4
Your report on a possible "reinvestigation" of Geoffrey Sampson's views on race and IQ seems not to take on board the consequences of his view that Asians are, on average, more intelligent than...
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Arts bias is costly
Last month, The Times Higher suggested that I somehow disagreed with Boris Johnson's view that if students "can benefit from (a degree) they should be given every opportunity to do so" ("Boris gets...
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Animal tests vital
Phillip Duckworth has an interesting - if mistaken - take on the tragic events at a research unit at Northwick Park Hospital (Letters, March 31). That this is the first time such an adverse reaction...
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Let the dinosaur die
It was interesting to see the table of winners if quality-related research (QR) funding was distributed according to 2003-04 external research income parameters ("What will be yardstick for success...
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A prize purchase
A colleague who required his students to purchase a copy of his (excellent) textbook found an inspired way to solve the conflict of interest problem highlighted in the story "Now apply in writing to...
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Careless cuts
There is a crucial difference between the redundancies planned at Northumbria University and those at London South Bank University ("Natfhe poised to take action", March 31). The 20 academic job cuts...
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No chance for peace
In her review of The Ethics of War (March 31), Margaret Anstee states that "in real life even these (moral criteria) are usually hard to evaluate". The invasion of Iraq provides a case where the...
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Critical words
In his review of two texts on reading research (Books, March 24), Charles Hulme says phonemes are "the individual speech sound units in words" and that the alphabetic principle is "that the letters...
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Hang together
The intellectual and ethical poverty of the academic boss class expressed in Jeremy Valentine's letter (March 31) is exactly what dumb insolence (an active form of sabotage) must fight, but they can...