With friends like Clare...
Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, is said to be upset that his friend John Clare, education editor of the Daily Telegraph , has...
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Not too deep a mystery
Just who could David Coates be referring to when he acknowledges those who helped him with his new book on the Government, Prolonged Labour ? The professor of Anglo-American studies at Wake Forest...
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The lure of big buck(et)s
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson praised conference organisers at West Virginia University for giving him an apt welcome when he delivered the prestigious Callahan lecture earlier this month....
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Laurie Taylor Column
Staff at Brunel University object to being classified as "research inactive" - The Times Higher , March 15 . Academic assessment Volume 13. March 2005 There is a growing demand for an objective...
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Alan Ryan
The travails of a sacked basketball coach and Harvard's president highlight US universities' results-driven ethos Here in Charlottesville, the home of Thomas Jefferson and of the university he...
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Leader: Caught in web of our own making
Anything that provides prospective students with objective judgements on the quality of higher education courses ought to be welcome. Since the demise of subject reviews, there has been little for...
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Leader: Don't fudge ambition
The consultation on post-qualification applications made it clear that the UK's predictions-based application process is finally going to change. But it is still not certain what will take its place...
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Flexibility can stretch just so far
Over the past few weeks, you have published two articles cataloguing the stresses and perceived injustices suffered by staff trying to balance their working lives and their home commitments ("Bundle...
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Citation frustration
I was intrigued by your league table of biomedicine (March 4) - in particular the research standing of UK universities as reflected in the "citations per paper" index. Evidence Ltd publishes an...
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Boring, not brutal 1
Andrew Linzey evidently does not live in our universe but rather in a curious parallel universe operating on very different moral foundations ("Why II fear for the treatment of laboratory animals",...
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Boring, not brutal 2
Bath University... would like to correct some misconceptions in Andrew Linzey's article. The Animal Procedures Committee is not a rubber-stamping exercise but an independent body established by the...
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Reform minded
Alison Wolf seems to have completely misunderstood Cambridge University's admissions process and our reasons for supporting the Tomlinson recommendations, to judge by her opinion piece last week. We...
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Trouble and strife
In his review of Michael Millgate's Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited (March 18), Terry Eagleton describes Hardy's first wife as "snobbish" and "imperious". I would not disagree with this...
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Pension pains
Your front-page article on pensions ("Pensions crisis may threaten pay rises", March 18) failed to mention the contribution holidays and cuts to pension funds that many employers, including...
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Copy and paste waste
The policing of plagiarism is becoming a big part of my role as a tutor in higher education. I thought my experiences of this had reached a nadir last year when a first-year student submitted an...