Laurie Taylor column
From: The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Action Short of a Strike To: All members of academic and related staff It has been brought to my attention that a number of members of staff are...
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Leader: AUT should keep its powder dry
The contrast between this week's pictures of striking French researchers filling the streets of Paris and the more muted efforts of the Association of University Teachers at the end of last month...
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Leader: Strength in diversity
Alex Neil's proposal for one university per city will make obvious sense to many outside observers of higher education. In England as well as in Scotland, the existence of at least two universities...
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Leader: AUT should keep its powder dry
The contrast between this week's pictures of striking French researchers filling the streets of Paris and the more muted efforts of the Association of University Teachers at the end of last month...
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Leader: Strength in diversity
Alex Neil's proposal for one university per city will make obvious sense to many outside observers of higher education. In England as well as in Scotland, the existence of at least two universities...
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Make the public part of science
Your report of the chancellor's breakfast meeting about science ("Image dogs UK science, say leaders", March 5) disappointed and saddened me. It is not true that there is a growing anti-science...
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No feud over CJD goal
An over-simplistic view of a difficult scientific challenge was portrayed by your article "'Bitter' feud stalls hunt for CJD cure" (March 5). The piece portrays the complex task of coordinating...
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Braziers are coming
Your correspondent claims (March 5) that the Association of University Teachers picket lines do not need traditional labour movement braziers. Indeed, but give it time. An extended period of new...
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Scandalous statistics
I think Graham Allen simply mispoke (Soapbox, February ) - but it certainly isn't true that the proportion of working-class children entering higher education has been a "static and scandalous" 20...
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Fluffy over Buffy
Although I love the strange field of Buffy studies, which combines two of my hobbies - watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and reading academic literature for pleasure - I can understand why a Times...
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Pay differentials 1
John Lauwerys (Letters, February ) is absolutely right to remind us that comparisons in average percentage salary increases between vice-chancellors and academic staff are often misleading. It is...
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Pay differentials 2
Unlike the head of the Russell Group, I fail to see why it is inevitable that "a lecturer in engineering" should "command a different salary from a lecturer in history, even within the same...
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Pay differentials 3
Andrée Grau asks how magnanimous is a gift of £4,000 from a vice-chancellor's salary of £181,000 (Letters, February ). With tax relief, the gift represents 2.8 per cent of total income, and since the...
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Stifled by regulation
In his comments about the accountability of researchers (Letters, March 5), Woody Caan implies that the only researchers concerned about hyperregulation are those with a commercial interest. Had he...
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Spreadsheet tragedy
The University of East Anglia's proposal to close down drama, linguistics and modern languages is yet another example of the direction in which universities are heading, putting spreadsheets above...