Leader: Hope in half-measures
The extra support for part-time students outlined by Bill Rammell on this page has been given a cautious welcome by those who have been lobbying for measures of this sort. But even he does not...
The extra support for part-time students outlined by Bill Rammell on this page has been given a cautious welcome by those who have been lobbying for measures of this sort. But even he does not...
If it were true that the strength of our case on campus extremism (most recently corroborated by The Sunday Times on October 16) relied on the link between City University and Sajiid Badat, the...
It's good to hear, finally, university vice-chancellors stand up against this daft right-wing spin Anthony Glees continues to feed the media, a reaction long overdue to counter Glees's pretty...
Anthony Glees is concerned that his research method is being "rubbished". Would that be the same research method that led him, in his 2003 book The Stasi Files , to accuse me - wrongly - of having...
Anthony Glees claims his research was based on interviews with "very senior figures in the intelligence and security community". That'll be the same senior figures that said that Iraq was developing...
Sally Hunt's defence of the new pay deal for academics (Letters, October 14) simply underlines how out of touch the leaderships of the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe...
It is natural for staff unions to seek large pay increases on the back of the major growth in higher education institutions' income due to top-up fees ("Unions issue deadline on pay deal and promise...
Alan Ryan is correct to point out that "our 'ancient' degree system is no such thing" (Columnist, October 7) since most students at England's two antique universities did not until late Victorian...
Why do you publish "reviews" such as the one by Jacques Guy of the Cambridge Companion to Saussure (Books, October 7), which was nothing more than a parade of the prejudices of the reviewer? Guy...
Having made good use of Angela McRobbie's analyses of magazines in gender terms, I was surprised by her condescension towards female undergraduates ("Cutting girls down to Victoria Beckham's size",...
I have never been "anally probed", but I must take Susan Tracey to task ("Take me to your leading scholars", October 14). She describes people as "logically challenged" for saying "the universe is...
In a research environment that is, thanks to the research assessment exercise, increasingly oriented to tactics and stratagems, the guidance on getting journal editors to take the bait is highly...
So higher education is now discovering that the administration of UK immigration control is arbitrary and irrational ("Valid students denied UK entry", October 7). This has been the case since at...
Gary Day (Columnist, October 14) professes to find plagiarism an innocent and indeed commendable activity. "Instead of penalising students for the crime, we should congratulate them for laying bare...
