First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book written by a gay Nobel laureate: "'The time has come for me to hear a step in the passage,'...
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Special features 2003-2004
How to get promoted Published: November 19 2004 A career guide for academics (PDF file: 165 KB) Postgraduate Education in the UK Published: November 12 2004 Summary of a report by the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Morning, Charles. Gordon here. Gordon Lapping. Sorry to bother you, but I need to set up a viva for that doctoral dissertation you've been looking at for us. That's right. The one with the red...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Morning, Charles. Gordon here. Gordon Lapping. Sorry to bother you, but I need to set up a viva for that doctoral dissertation you've been looking at for us. That's right. The one with the red...
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Alan Ryan
What of the 33 per cent of students who never finish at UEL?’The consultation on fair admissions represents too small a slice of the community and ignores the possibility of using numerical...
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Alan Ryan
What of the 33 per cent of students who never finish at UEL?' The consultation on fair admissions represents too small a slice of the community and ignores the possibility of using numerical scores...
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Leader: Time running out for dual support
The dual-support system for research has few friends. Politicians who emphasise transparency do not enjoy the sight of money being spent without clear outcomes. In universities, dual support has not...
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Leader: Don't rush to satisfy
The postponement of England's first full student satisfaction survey until 2005 might be mildly embarrassing for ministers since the higher education white paper made the implausible promise...
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Leader: Time running out for dual support
The dual-support system for research has few friends. Politicians who emphasise transparency do not enjoy the sight of money being spent without clear outcomes. In universities, dual support has not...
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Leader: Don't rush to satisfy
The postponement of England's first full student satisfaction survey until 2005 might be mildly embarrassing for ministers since the higher education white paper made the implausible promise...
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Campus havens, classroom hell 1
I'd like to share my experience of teaching in a typical secondary school in response to Tina Brown's article ("Get a job in academe? You must be joking", THES , November 7). In the county in which I...
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Campus havens, classroom hell 2
From the periphery of the lecturers' labour market, I empathise with Tina Brown. But are academics "gutless"? The following ads for postgraduate research fellows appeared recently in The THES...
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Insular arguments
Alison Wolf (Columnist, THES , November 14) paints a dismal but familiar picture of UK higher education and its inherent parochialism. Only one sentence in the entire article mentions the benefits (...
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Pension pitfalls
Alexander Wedderburn's problem of non-recognition of his Universities Superannuation Scheme pension by German universities (Letters, THES , November 14) matches mine, but in reverse. I made my...
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Prudence on pay
If the Association of University Teachers is at odds with colleagues in other unions (Jocelyn Prudence, Letters, THES , November 14), it is because it does not strike two-year pay deals at 4am when...