Friends, not foes
The issues confronting lecturers and researchers are more complex than you allow ("Hunt faces rough ride from Left on NEC", March 23). The commercialisation and commodification of higher learning and...
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Open to errors
As staff at Sussex University's Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Brighton University's Centre for Research in Innovation Management Centre, we are greatly concerned at the poorly...
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Read carefully
Katie Gramich (Letters, March 16) accuses me of seeing devolution only as a "problem" and of considering solely the English aspect of it in my review of Christopher Bryant's The Nations of Britain (...
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Not one for answers
For John Armitage (Opinion, March 16), Jean Baudrillard provides "a much-needed critique of semiotic society". However, while postmodernism may pose some awkward questions, it can have no answers. In...
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Art makes it personal
Anne Bamford's article (Opinion, March 23) is a refreshing reminder of the value of our art schools in fostering innovation. Most of us working in higher education know that lectures do little to...
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Made into a jobsworth
My response to the contemptible rise of corporate-style management in higher education ("Corporate push spawns 24/7 culture", March 23) has been simple: I work to rule. Once I was happy to respond to...
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Built-in obsolescence
Much of the debate about the redeployment of postdocs displays a profound ignorance of the structure and mores of the postdoctoral research system. Because their skills are often highly specialised,...
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Bored, not befuddled
Protestations that members of the University and College Union were possibly put off by the complexity of the voting system in the ballot for the union's general secretary ("Low voter turnout raises...
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Flora seeks fans
Ken Bowler's article on the plight of zoology (Opinion, March 16) comes as no surprise to those of us in the plant science community. Bowler correctly surmises that the decline in interest in "whole...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: exams The Father We are losing a colleague this week, something that always rattles...
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Life in the City of High Intent
Best-selling novelist Fay Weldon talks to a sceptical friend about why her post at Brunel University has turned her into Pollyanna. " Oh, fancy, you a professor! What of? " "Creative writing." "...
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Dr Dia Llemmer
A reader writes: Sir, I have the honour of acting as my university's public orator, an office in which I have celebrated the achievements of many luminaries from the worlds of academe, industry,...
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Signs of life
Is the distinction between nature and culture false because nature evolved to interact in codes? Geoff Watts gets a primer in signals right down to the genetic level. Semiotics is the study of signs...
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Today's news
Quash anti-Semitism, says minister The Government is due today to unveil steps universities must take to stamp out campus anti-Semitism. Phil Woolas, the Communities Minister, , is expected to...
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Today's news
Warning over Islamic extremists operating in universities Race hate laws should be used to crack down on extremist groups whose activities are prompting a rise in anti-Semitism at Britain's...