Leader: Standards issue can't be evaded
That v-cs cannot admit to even understanding MPs' worries about quality and consistency bodes ill for the UK's reputation
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From where I sit - Risky business is a busted flush
In our household, which is made up of one journalist and one journalist-turned-academic, we have been saying for months: "Wait until the fallout from universities' failed investments is made public."...
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Harold Hankins, 1930-2009
Harold Hankins, the engineer who steered the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) through challenging times, has died.Born on 18 October 1930, he attended Crewe...
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Trac isn't the enemy - underfunding is
My colleague Thomas Docherty is wrong ("Total disclosure a sign of the academy's time-and-motion sickness", 30 July).The Transparent Approach to Costing (Trac) is not a time-and-motion study. Time-...
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Points on freedom
I am pleased that Times Higher Education has chosen to stimulate the debate on academic freedom ("What is freedom? Choosing your v-c", 30 July). In the spirit of academic freedom, I wish reply to the...
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Brand values
In light of the sector's commercialisation, the articles by Robert Mighall and Jonathan Baldwin on branding were useful ("What sets you apart?" 23 July).Branding is not just relevant to the...
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Basic maths? No such thing
Hooray! At long last we've heard the real truth about mathematics ("Artists may hold the formula for a renaissance in maths", 23 July).I have been teaching primary school mathematics for the past...
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Dog-tired dogma
Having read your coverage of Ron Barnett's plenary address at the Higher Education Academy conference about the ethos that might shape the universities of the future ("Selfish models lose social...
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Capital idea
Lord Mandelson is right to support a higher education system that "invests in everything from Classics to quantum physics" ("Lord Mandelson says higher fees must mean more help for the poor", 30 July...
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Patents play only a part
We have two observations on Craig Evan Klafter's article on university patenting ("The missing link", 23 July).Klafter bases his argument on universities that employ patent lawyers: we take this to...
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Wait a second...
I think it unlikely that Frank Wilczek and his wife have celebrated 100 billion seconds together (Books, 23 July). Had they done so, they might be able to give us eyewitness accounts of the Elamites...
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Brace for impact 1
Keith Flett's letter in last week's Times Higher Education - that getting on the front page of The Sun would count as "impact of research" - misses the point. Impact is not about sexing up or dumbing...
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Brace for impact 2
Keith Flett mentions Max Clifford, but Flett is the greater self-publicist. My research into publicly cited criminologists was intended to be provocative. And, taking Roger Brown's point on the need...
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Reject Cosmopolitanism
Apropos the topic of last week's issue ("Hearts and minds: Making academic marriages work"): can I just check that I haven't subscribed to Cosmopolitan? Whatever next - an article about Sex and the...
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Under the weather
Was it only coincidence that the post of Met Office chair in weather systems (Times Higher Education, 30 July) appeared on the same day as reports in the national press revising this year's summer...