In this time of war, we must reclaim from celebrities our right to make significant gestures and voice opinions in the public arena, argues Alan Read The cliché "theatre of war" has been tripping off...
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...
Whatever happened to the good old days of dons mowing the campus lawn in their pyjamas? Adrian Mourby charts the decline of that great academic institution - the eccentric According to a report in...
Why has The THES got its sharpened teeth into the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education? You are always printing negative articles such as Helen Beebee's "Why I" ( THES, March 28)....
Helen Beebee is horrified that ILTHE accreditation has made new lecturer training the equivalent of ten weeks' work. Can you imagine members of any other profession presumptuous enough to think that...
One wonders what the ILTHE has done to deserve Helen Beebee's criticism? Surely there is enough in common between lecturers in different disciplines to provide common ground in teaching? The ILTHE is...
University lecturer training courses are not generic as Helen Beebee suggests. They are designed for a rich diversity of staff experience. Participants value the opportunity to discuss teaching with...
I spent many years at a "teaching-only" institution with no core funding for research before the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES, March 14). All academics were scholarly, about half...
This month I delivered the manuscript of a new anthology of Max Weber's writings to the publisher. I have been able to pursue the research, scholarship and translation necessary to produce an...
Why is parental attendance at university open days such a problem ("Is mum's push more of a shove?", THES, March 28)? At Strathclyde University, up to a quarter of students are the first generation...
Sarah Nelson claims qualitative researchers are being "patronising and discriminatory" when presenting direct quotes from working-class and less-educated people, because they may contain local...
The only rational, though short-sighted, argument for researchers limiting partners to those in other European Union states would be that the EU is a source of soft money ("European links are...
I was surprised at the number of delegates at the European Universities Association conference in Bristol last week (Opinion, THES, March 28) who thought there was widespread support for the war on...
The Royal Society's meeting on affiliation bias explored, among many other things, the best ways in which to maintain a balance between commercial and public funding of scientific research. No one...
Social scientists' lack of engagement with wider public debates ("Social sciences need to find ways to share", THES, March 28) is not solely their responsibility. The format for dissemination of...