Links with Africa better than aid 2
More detailed analysis is needed about what happens to starry-eyed returners when African governments go bad. Zimbabwe makes a good case study. Five years ago, few Zimbabweans lived in exile, self-...
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Links with Africa better than aid 3
Live8 may have been a great pop concert but surely more could be done by UK universities to encourage African politicians to participate in education that has a good measure of moral philosophy,...
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Links with Africa better than aid 4
Your articles miss one key fact: institutions such as the University of Cape Town train many talented people, but if they are white they is no way they will get a job in South Africa. Its affirmative...
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Potential difference 1
I wonder at stories that accuse the Higher Education Academy of failing to do things it was not set up to do ("Put lecturers first, academy told", July 1). My friend and colleague Ron Barnett is...
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Potential difference 2
The Higher Education Academy can champion the role of teaching by listening to Ron Barnett and Alan Jenkins. The HEA board, dominated as it is by managerial and government interests, cannot be...
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Hefce taken to task 1
The suggestion that institutions might "gamble in the last-chance saloon" ("Funding councils unveil new submissions criteria", July 1) at the next research assessment exercise by citing in their...
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Hefce taken to task 2
" Times Higher lowers journalism standards" - how would you feel about such a heading based on the unsubstantiated opinion of a few readers? I ask because I do not understand either how your headline...
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Hefce taken to task 3
On the one hand, the UK mathematics community falls short of reproducing itself. On the other, mathematicians have the highest earnings expectations of all graduates ("Home PhDs trumped by overseas...
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Spending pledge
You claim the Government is backtracking on its commitment to increase public spending on science ("Scientists fear broken pledge", June 24). There is no truth in this. The Government set out its...
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Cut the complacency
I was shocked by the article "Hefce plays down closures" (July 1) and, in particular, Sir Howard Newby's belief that there is no need for a "great moral panic". I'd like him to tell that to the...
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Wellies, check. Bolly, check
The Glastonbury Festival sits uneasily between Disney and democracy, says John Street, who wonders if there is any 'counter' left in its culture. Just four bands played when the first Glastonbury...
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The last stand of Boudicca and the Celtic good guys
An excavation in East Anglia hints at the Celts' resistance to Roman globalisation. Steve Farrar digs up the evidence. It did not seem like much. Burnt fragments of wattle and daub, a few flint-lined...
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Poems from the academy selected by Christopher Ricks
The Prelude, by William Wordsworth. Of College labours, of the Lecturer's room All studded round, as thick as chairs could stand, With loyal students faithful to their books, Half-and-half idlers,...
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Poems from the academy selected by Christopher Ricks
The Prelude , or, Growth of a Poet's Mind. But since the mind of William Wordsworth, over a very long life (1770-1850), never ceased to grow (even if it grew arthritic), it is not surprising that...
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No scrimping, no RAE, no cynical old men...
Top scientists are being wooed by an oasis of healthy salaries, hi-tech facilities and freedom. Anna Fazackerley joins them in the sun. David Lane discovered p53, the tumour suppressor gene that is...