Outgoing Fellowships: ߣߣÊÓÆµ, Canada and New Zealand
Deadline: 03/05/2005
Deadline: 03/05/2005
Deadline: 03/05/2005
Row over funding demand for Open University A row has erupted over funding for the Open University, the country's best-known distance-learning institution. Its senior management has warned ministers...
" Hefce burdened by Freedom of Information requests and censoring " - The Times Higher, March 4 . To: The Higher Education Funding Council for England Dear Sir, I understand that under the new...
This should be a red-letter week for university research. The science budget marked the beginning of the end of an era when accepting research council grants might cost an institution money. Instead...
Higher education is not an easy field in which to be a human resources manager. Not only is there an unusually diverse range of staff, but many of those in positions of responsibility have been...
Barry Ife's letter is extraordinary (March 4). He complains that in your report on vice-chancellors' salaries - in which you showed that they had doubled over the past ten years - you spelt his name...
You claim that my salary is £113,000. This is incorrect. The right sum is £97,000. Michael Alder Writtle College
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is phasing out funding for PhD students in departments with units of assessment ranked 3a ("Funding fillip for further study", March 4). Now it can...
So Alastair Fowler's castigating Stephen Greenblatt is like Thomas Edison's ticking off an electrician ("Heavyweights square up in bout of literary 'butt kicking'", March 4). Greenblatt is the...
Munjed Farid Al Qutob's salute to Holocaust Day (Letters, February 11) is naive and shows an unawareness of modern history. Atrocities such as those in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda disprove his...
In 1989-94 I served as chair of the University of London's Academic Council. As I was elected on a "federalist" ticket, I vigorously defended the university's federal basis. Then, as now, the major...
Ruth Kelly thinks reform must build on what you have already (News, March 4). Has she not heard of double-loop change, which requires not to do things better, but to do better things - or that you...
I read with horror of the cuts facing subject librarians at the University of Wales, Bangor ("Librarians under threat", February 11). It never fails to amaze me how otherwise intelligent individuals...
It is a disgrace that ethnic minorities, who are among the most avid consumers of higher education, are also among its least well served ("The doors to the mainstream are shut to pioneers" and "Why...