Counts as a good time
I was surprised that no one took issue with the statement in "It's hard to count on statisticians" (January ) that "even a social scientist would admit that number-crunching is one of the least...
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The right words 1
The caption under my photo accompanying the article about the late Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi ("He did all that was possible - he saved 150 Jews", January ) quoted me as saying: "There is a...
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The right words 2
For a long time now, I, my late mother and many others who owe their lives to the infinite humanity and courage of Andrei Sheptytskyi have been campaigning for Yad Vashem to acknowledge that he is...
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Celebrate stability
The letter "Unchanging times" (January ) complains that when universities move away from the use of fixed-term contracts for researchers this makes good headlines but is "functionally irrelevant"....
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Local produce
Sussex University biology student Ben Hart stripped off for the Environmental Society's calendar to publicise the drive for a more sustainable future on campus for staff and students. The calendar is...
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No 'crisis' as science loses allure
The number of UK students taking PhDs in science subjects is continuing to plummet, according to official figures. The percentage of UK students taking PhDs in physics fell by 15 per cent between...
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Ucas to pilot centralised postgrad admissions service
The UK is on course to have a centralised postgraduate admissions system by 2008, a conference on postgraduate education will hear next week, writes Claire Sanders. Anthony McClaran, chief executive...
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Unions say 'no' to pay talks
Academic trade unions have rebuffed a move by employers to reopen pay negotiations, refusing to put planned industrial action on hold unless vice-chancellors put a "substantive offer on the table"....
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Threat to suspend death-in-service benefits
Lecturers' unions accused the University College for the Creative Arts this week of trying to "intimidate" lecturers into pulling out of planned strike action, by threatening to suspend their death-...
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Exhibit A: a wealth of 'tartan noir'
Scotland's two-decade domination of the detective novel is being put under the magnifying glass by an international academic journal. Scottish writers such as Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Christopher...
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Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments
Academics need more training to help them avoid cultural clashes and misunderstandings with the rising number of overseas students they must teach and supervise, according to international students'...
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'British universities don't respect us - they just want our money'
According to Zhou Zhaofeng, a Chinese student doing a law PhD at Glasgow University, UK institutions do little to overcome cultural barriers. Mr Zhou, who also studied at Bristol and Manchester...
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Lack of records gets London Met in trouble with CRE
London Metropolitan University has broken race relations laws by failing to monitor properly the impact of a performance-related pay scheme on its ethnic minority staff, the Commission for Racial...
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Coca-Cola tries to take fizz out of NUS boycott call
Coca-Cola is battling to head off the threat of losing its £7 million a year contract to supply its drinks to students at 200 universities and colleges in the UK. The National Union of Students will...
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Students today can't write, spell or count
Admissions tutors' report cards for today's undergraduates might well read: "Marks are slipping, must do better." That, at least, is the conclusion of the 250 university admissions staff quizzed as...