Easy money? That's rich
Topping the salary table is not all it's made out to be, says Malcolm Gillies
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Research intelligence: Smart(phone) moves
Zoë Corbyn reports from Washington DC on journal publishers' plans to get a piece of the mobile action
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: More than money is at stake
Exploiting foreign students may briefly bolster balance sheets, but such disrespectful treatment will cause long-term damage
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From where I sit: If the robes fit...
Just when you think that things will get serious, suddenly they become absurd.On 1 April, the Right to Education Act in India was implemented, which makes school education a fundamental right for all...
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Obituary: Sir James Black, 1924-2010
A Nobel laureate who pioneered two major advances in 20th-century medicine has died.Sir James Black was born in Lanarkshire on 14 June 1924 and educated at Beath High School, where pressure from a...
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Figures show we must brush up our stats 1
Statistical skills are in short supply in social research, according to both the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Social Fund ("Quantitative is qualitative" and "Europe, know...
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Figures show we must brush up our stats 2
It was good to see a short report in last week's Times Higher Education on the ESRC's International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology ("Quantitative is qualitative"). While you rightly pointed to...
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Fees? No way 1
It was disappointing, although not unexpected, to see yet another story in THE dedicated to reopening the question of tuition fees in Scotland ("Ready to charge?", 15 April). The scarcity of...
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Fees? No way 2
It is simply not the case that Scottish universities have not charged tuition fees for a decade. Fees for full-time undergraduates may have been abolished in 2000, but part-time students continue to...
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Liberty bell unheard 1
Your article, "Balls can act, so why can't I: Lammy was vexed by London Met constraints" (15 April), reported that David Lammy, the higher education minister, was puzzled and frustrated by his...
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Liberty bell unheard 2
Those who lecture and provide support at London Met have done a great job carrying on while those charged with managing the university lurched from one disaster to another. Some of those "managers"...
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Income multiples
There is a much easier solution to the problem of global market pressure on vice-chancellors' salaries than the ones suggested in THE ("World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it", 8 April). If vice...
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Unsung but vital
In "Third spaces and bragging rights: the administrator fights back" (8 April), Matthew Andrews asks: "Should we recapture the term 'administrator'?" I couldn't agree more.Recent reports, including...
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Only impact worth having
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is correct when he writes that "the best test of what my British colleagues are now learning to call the 'impact' of research is: how does it change undergraduates' minds and...