Laurie Taylor Column
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir, I am writing to protest about the treatment accorded to Poppleton in last week's analysis of university wealth. Let me begin by correcting two serious errors of...
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Vying for the common good?
Open competition for research funds is the only fair way to go, says Steven Schwartz The country, we are told, would be much better if research funds were further concentrated in a handful of...
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Leader: Who will pay to restore health of staff pensions?
The precarious finances of Britain's universities remain uncontestable - deficits loom and it will be a long time before the first fruits of top-up fees filter through to depleted coffers. But this...
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Leader: Many shades of grey in public picture of GM
Despite the speed with which the subject develops, this week's report on the safety of genetically modified food, from a group chaired by Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser,...
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Will harsh weed-out allow Iraqi academia to flower?
After sanctions, bombing and looting, Iraq's universities now face political purges. Turi Munthe looks at how US rule is affecting efforts to rebuild academe. Outside Baghdad University's faculty of...
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A clean break with oil or just a smokescreen?
George Bush and big business are backing fuel cells as the pollution-free way to provide power. But, Geoff Watts finds, not everyone is reassured by their enthusiasm. Wind power may be all the rage...
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'If not for this, I would be on the dole and depressed'
Roisin Woolnough reports on a project that gives people with hearing difficulties a real chance at university. When it was suggested that Tom Speirs go to university, his immediate reaction was: "I...
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Class warriors in the hills
A picture that arrives with every issue of his THES took Norman Bonney back to 1967, when he joined the War on Poverty in rural West Virginia. Every week subscribers who receive their THES by mail...
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Blood, iron and creative havoc
What makes a great leader? The ability to inspire others even as you unsettle them - a quality Tony Blair shares with the man who unified Germany, Otto von Bismarck, says Brendan Simms. Ever since...
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Radical without revolutionary zeal
Olga Wojtas traces the roots of Gordon Brown's pragmatic socialism back to his student days, when he challenged the established order and won. Last week, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer...
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Iron out waffle over research 1
If there were a prize for pompous waffle, it would surely be awarded to the debate on "the iron link between the quality of teaching and research". It is not even much of a debate because every...
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No regime change
The University of Surrey will always evaluate the benefits of seeking to develop new funding streams to further cut its dependence on recurrent grant funding, but it has no plans to work outside the...
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Iron out waffle over research 2
Rewarding excellent teaching through promotion procedures is one way of stimulating good teaching and ensuring parity of esteem with research ("Unions on the warpath over reward for 'star' teachers...
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Anti-science WMDs
The official nationwide debate on genetically modified crops ends this month but the unofficial debate will continue, mainly because many people involved see this as "war". One side has worked for...
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Clampdown on drivers
The arguments to justify academics using private transport are unconvincing ("Driven to distraction by the charge of the green brigade", THES, July 18). Academics drive to work because they can and...