Jihadists and McCarthyites 3
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...
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Jihadists and McCarthyites 4
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...
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Losing the plot on pay 1
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...
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Losing the plot on pay 2
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...
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Not old but valuable
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...
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Bad review
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...
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Still not seduced
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",...
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Use a little more logic
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...
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New publishing tactic
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...
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Immigration debate
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...
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It's a steal
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...
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Truths that slip out over a banana
Temperamentally, bonobos and chimps are poles apart. Humankind, however, has something from both of its kinsmen, says Frans de Waal There is no greater contrast between humankind's two closest...
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'I swore on my grandparents' grave I'd work for the Roma'
Faisal al Yafai meets Romania's only female Gypsy academic, who wants her people to overcome age-old prejudice As the lecturer walked through the gates of her university in colourful, flowing skirts...
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The institute of bad ideas
You're a think-tank and you know you are, a think-tank and you know you are. You're not fit to think a thought, you're not fit to think a thought. Shall we think a thought for you? Ooooooh, you're a...