Laurie Taylor Column
From: Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate Development Subject: The Chancellor Following last Friday afternoon's degree ceremony, there have been a number of allegations made about the behaviour of...
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Alan Ryan
The best way to determine who should have the largest slice of funding cake is to let the market decide There are two animals much loved by philosophers: the Pushmi-Pullyu and Buridan's ass. The...
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Leader: Tough questions can't be dodged
Concern for academic freedom will be low down the list of priorities for the general public in determining universities' responsibilities in the face of an increased terrorist threat. It is fair to...
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Leader: Boys need more help
Ministers may have mixed feelings about the sharply reduced projection of future demand for university places published by the Higher Education Policy Institute. The report suggests that meeting the...
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Show of team spirit or own goal?
Of all the own goals scored by arrogant university chiefs, I would like to nominate those responsible for Brunel University's "Open Letter" full-page advertisement for first prize (July 8). The...
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Collateral damage
Diana Laurillard's call for the research assessment exercise to acknowledge teaching online misses the point ("Call for RAE to recognise e-learning", July 8). In 2000, the Higher Education Funding...
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Question time
If we accept the plea by Gerry McKenna, Ulster University's former vice-chancellor, that accusations of "bullying and impairment through alcohol could have been misunderstandings of his heart and...
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Timely advice
If Maria Misra is struggling to cope with "multitasking" (Working Knowledge, July 8) then perhaps she had better stop writing her columns for The Times Higher . Klaus Dodds Dean of the Graduate...
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CMI cashback
I read your article about the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), ("Flagship institute set to ask for more cash", July 8) with dismay. For your readers' benefit, I will outline a few of the things we are...
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Tune in to dropouts 1
When I read "Dropout push adds to load" (July 1), I was concerned that staff were being blamed for dropouts. I read on and discovered that lecturers were teaching only 150 hours a year (six hours a...
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Tune in to dropouts 2
Explanations for high dropout rates among working-class students often blame institutional attitudes and processes for the problem, as in the research by Jocey Quinn ("Project lifts the hood on male...
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Leading the field
London's hosting of the 30th Olympiad in 2012 brings a unique opportunity to raise the profile of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism subjects and to ensure their recognition as essential...
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Not so clear view
I was interested to see that the co-author of The Times Good University Guide , Bernard Kingston, describes its methodology as transparent (Soapbox, June 17). If it were so, I would be able to check...
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No competition
Your article "Scheme to validate foundation degrees is met with caution" (July 1) requires clarification. It suggests that the NVC and University Vocational Awards Council service is competing with...
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Theory blown away
The studies of wind and nuclear power cited by J. A. Simmons (Letters, June 24) are contradicted by other sources, including the German Environment Ministry's 2004 report on "ecologically optimised"...