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"Young academics are frustrated by attempts to publish in academic journals" - The Times Higher, February 25 Gordon. Is that you? Charles! Good to hear your voice. How can I help? Gordon, I've got my...
In an era when institutional collaboration is being championed by politicians everywhere, regional federations might be an idea whose time has come. No higher education policy debate is complete...
Twenty years ago, Iraq's universities were among the strongest in the Middle East. They were modelled on the British system and excelled in science and technology. Since then, war and decades of...
I have recently accompanied my daughter on a round of university open days and interviews. Almost without exception, we have been depressed, discouraged and bored by the experience. At one...
The scandalous hike in the pay of vice-chancellors is morally offensive ("Heads enjoy 100 per cent rise in pay over ten years", February 25). The recent news that lecturers work the longest unpaid...
To get my name and my salary wrong is a bit much. There is only one "f" in Ife and the £193,000 you awarded me would have been nice, but it was, in fact, the sum of my salary and my predecessor's. My...
London Metropolitan University is looking for job cuts because it has failed to meet internal financial targets. Could this be connected to the fact that its heads, Roderick Floud and Brian Roper,...
As an eclectic academic working at the interface of arts, humanities and social sciences, I was appalled to read your feature on the difficulties faced by young scholars in getting published in...
You quote Rhiannon Evans of Edge Hill College as stating that we chose to go against legal advice in taking the college to court ("OAPs lose home in fight with college", February 25). This is not...
I read with disquiet Mr and Mrs Beaumont's conflict with Edge Hill College. The issue of student lifestyle (noise and misbehaviour - appropriately attributed or not) and how it impacts on local...
William Calvin's assumption that early Homo sapiens was more stupid than modern humans is based on prejudice, not evidence ("Brainier - but not smarter", February 25). Calvin concludes that...
Racism is a serious problem in higher education. The Association of University Teachers seems to share with universities a denial about its existence in the absence of "burning crosses" nailed to the...
Should our members vote for a new union covering post-16 education, the AUT and Natfhe want it to have the best possible equality structures, reflecting the finest traditions of both organisations....
While a new awards scheme to recognise the achievements of people working in higher education is very welcome, The Times Higher awards are not the first such awards, nor has the sector "had to make...