Ludicrous lose-lose
The fact that students are likely to have their university bursaries delayed due to data protection requirements ("A missed tick could bite into bursaries", December 2) highlights a ludicrous...
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'Don't call us skivers'
I would ask that The Times Higher apologises to Birmingham University staff for using the phrase "skiving off" in the article "V-c raps staff who skip graduation", (November 25). It is offensive to...
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Hunt on wrong track 1
Manchester University has sought to increase its profile through the appointment of Nobel laureates, with the first appointee to be paid an initial package worth £250,000 ("Manchester offer entices...
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Hunt on wrong track 2
A world in which desperate universities hunt down research stars in a quest for cash may resonate with the cynics, but for many of us this is not the case ("RAE poachers take big game", December 2)....
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Hunt on wrong track 3
Presumably the poaching of entire research teams ahead of the research assessment exercise is confined to science departments. Humanities departments are still rejecting applicants who have published...
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Communal research
I have been reading recent letters and articles about the web and plagiarism. While not wishing to deny that there is a problem, I find myself asking whether there hasn't been a qualitative change in...
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Positive on IP reforms
Sir John Sulston is rightly concerned that we need to get our scholarly work into the public domain ("Laureate warns over intellectual property reform", November 25), and Cambridge has gone further...
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Lessons for the NHS
The announcement that more National Health Service trusts are desperate for money again leads to the questions of how and why? In 1950, the annual cost of the NHS was about £350 million: the monetary...
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The love that speaks its name in Hello!
When Michael Jackson dangled his small child out of a hotel window, did his fans desert him? Of course not, says Terry Eagleton, and therein lies the nature of celebrity Celebrities go a long way...
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Freedom is first fatality as a new iron curtain falls
Bill Bowring, a human rights lawyer, was deported from Russia and fears for NGOs in the country At 5am on November 15, I was stopped by Russian passport control and prevented from entering the...
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Helping the poor to crash fat cats' party
The world trading system is a club for rich nations, says Andrew Charlton, who charts his journey from street protester to co-author with a Nobel laureate It was 5.30 in the morning but the streets...
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A pilgrimage to humanity's heartland
The centrepiece of a £31m tourist attraction is the work of South African academics who helped reveal the first humans, writes Karen MacGregor The bulldozers were still busy at Maropeng, a tourist...
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Today's news
Schemes to spot brightest state pupils 'highly dubious' Top universities are wasting precious time and money on inefficient and ineffective schemes to spot the brightest pupils in state schools,...
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Latest research news
Race against time to study mysterious new species A mysterious creature has been discovered deep in an endangered rainforest, the wildlife charity WWF said yesterday. The animal, which is believed to...
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Today's news
Academics welcome terror bill concessions Academics have welcomed moves by the Government to protect scientists and lecturers from prosecution under the new terrorism bill. Jonathan Whitehead, the...