Forging better research and policy links
Millions of pounds are spent on university research into raising standards in schools. So why isn't it happening? Jim Hillage suggests a way forward "Do you really think research can influence...
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Watching ߣߣÊÓƵ's fee fracas
It was going to be a proud day for ߣߣÊÓƵn universities. Our very own student funding system, the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, was supposed to herald a new age in British higher education...
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Regulating the diet of digital burgers
The average Briton spends more time watching TV than doing anything else other than sleeping - 25 and a half hours per week to be precise. Admittedly, my average Brit is a mean not a median; but, if...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales DD: Hans Kung, professor emeritus of ecumenical theology at the University of Tubingen, president of the Foundation Global Ethic in Germany (1995) and Switzerland (1997); David...
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'Science must be applied'
The government should overhaul its schemes to encourage university researchers to collaborate with industry, according to the new science minister, Lord Sainsbury. The initiatives should be appraised...
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All-male bias hampers research funding study
A study to evaluate the funding of interdisciplinary research is being hampered by a lack of balance in responses from academics, writes Alison Goddard. The study intends to ensure the fair...
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US visa block on foreign workers
A POLITICAL impasse over the availability of visas has shut the door on foreign academics who had hoped to enter the United States in time to teach or do research in the academic year now beginning....
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Techno future not easy to predict, says report
Forecasting how technology and people will mix in 2020 will need more than the "gee-whiz optimism of the technophiles", concludes a Foresight report from the Economic and Social Research Council out...
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Pagan but not godless
I was appalled by the closing paragraph of Shabbir Akhtar's review (THES, August 21), in which he identifies secularism with paganism and denounces the latter as ruthless, power-seeking and "godless...
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Insult to Serbs
Vera Rich (THES, August 21) "informs" us that "Kosovo was cut off from Albania in the Communist era ..." This is grossly incorrect and insulting both to Serbs today and their forefathers who fought...
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On record
Christopher Phipps refers to the British Library and other major libraries collaborating to ensure a continued national public archive (THES, August 21). Anyone from the London Library should be...
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A levels as entry route
It is disappointing to see yet another example of questionable graphical display used to substantiate a point based on dubious interpretation of data. Phil Baty ("Colleges overtake schools", THES,...
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall (THES, August 21) has some interesting ideas. The Association of University Teachers and the corporate trustee both agree with him in attaching importance to improvement of the...
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall could be accused of proposing the wrong solution to the wrong problem at the wrong time. If there is genuine concern about the stress levels of university staff these should be...
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Hong Kong cash myth
Orlan Lee, writing about higher education in Hong Kong in your review of the Commonwealth, regrettably perpetuates a myth about the research assessment exercises undertaken by the University Grants...