'No' to work in a degree factory
The Government sees universities as servants of the neoliberal economy. Bob Brecher wishes to have no truck with this. We already have good reason to be grateful to Gordon Brown. Why? Because the new...
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Enjoying a blast from the past
Looking forward to a reunion at your alma mater - or dreading it? Harriet Swain found that dressing casually, networking and dancing along to the band will make for a thoroughly agreeable event. Well...
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Skulking around in the altogether
Name : Paul Mason Age : 38 Job : Senior lecturer/director of postgraduate research, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Salary : We'd still be on strike if I had my...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I have just returned from maternity leave and would like to work more from home. In...
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Who's in who's out?
Plymouth Plymouth University's new vice-chancellor is not one to sit on the fence. "There will be changes," she said. "This is not a time to be ambivalent." Wendy Purcell, formerly deputy vice-...
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Retention rates initiative
Memo from the Office of the Vice ChancellorTo: All Academic Staff Subject: Dropout rates It has been brought to my attention that the University of Poppleton takes first place in the Bottom Ten...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
I am not yet up there with Salman Rushdie or Tintin. Disappointingly, from my publishers' point of view, no one has yet pronounced a death sentence against me. Regrettably, the Commission for Racial...
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Voice needed on skills councils
The Government's long-awaited response to Lord Leitch's review of skills last week proposed a course of action that ministers hope will lead the country into a skills "revolution" ("Embrace Leitch or...
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Downward mobility
I take exception to your portrayal of job security as a privilege ("Union alarm as pre-92s demolish statutes", July 20). On choosing a university career, many staff traded higher salaries in the...
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Doctor uncovered
I am sorry that Gerard DeGroot, the reviewer of my book Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon , did not appreciate my attempt to explore weapons of mass destruction...
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Signs and signals
The articles regarding the relationship that exists between students and their university ("Move to curb student rights", "NUS alarmed by one-sided student contract", July 13) raise many questions....
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Unsuitable company
What a depressing article from Phillip Brown ("When merit means nothing", July 20). Brown paints education as the background from which people "tailor themselves to the perceived requirements for...
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Fiscal incentives
The question of funding of political parties raised in the review of The Cost of Democracy: Party Funding in Modern British Politics (Books, July 20) seems to ignore two key points. First, the...
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Cultural evolution
You should have looked further than the Daily Mail for the research for your report "Cultural studies conference looks to shake off Mickey Mouse image" (News, July 20). Calling up three people for...
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Pursuing excellence 1
We should not be surprised that "Centres of excellence fail to transform learning" (July 13). Most academics know that if excellence is anything, it is usually a consequence of inspired individuals...