How to boost numbers 2
Your report on the lack of success in boosting university student numbers ("Labour's student ambitions falter", August 18) is not helped by the fact that constant references are made to progression...
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Contractual errors 1
Elizabeth Barlow is indeed one of the lucky ones ("Life for PhD students is on the up", August 11). The Roberts review may have benefited researchers in the sciences and engineering and social...
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Contractual errors 2
With regard to Edinburgh University moving fixed-term contract (FTC) researchers to permanent contracts ("Edinburgh management and union forge permanent alliance", August 4, and Letters, August 18),...
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A lesson in what the LSE teaches 1
Everybody at the London School of Economics accepts that there is a right to free speech and free expression. But an academic who publicly accuses his colleagues of, among other things, giving "...
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A lesson in what the LSE teaches 2
Erik Ringmar may be hitting some targets square on the bull's-eye with his comments on the function of universities for employers. He claims that by picking students from the best universities,...
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A lesson in what the LSE teaches 3
I agree with Erik Ringmar that employers want only compliant workers and would add that universities are only too willing to swallow the ideology of "employability". But I am having trouble getting...
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What's the cash for?
Max Travers is right that discussing the merits of the research assessment exercise and the proposed metrics system will not solve the problems of research (Letters, August 18). The debate about what...
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Sandy sartorial tips
On reading the article "Summer time and the living is easy..." (August 18), I was disconcerted by the revelation that James Tooley, professor of education at Newcastle University, sits on a beach in...
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Wrongs of red-circling 1
Leeds University has downgraded (red-circled) 90 academic-related posts (Features, August 18). Academic-related staff are team players, supporting learning, teaching and research in professional ways...
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Collateral damage
In ignoring its own wrongdoings in pursuing war on terror, the US imperils its much-vaunted values and its moral authority, argues Alex Danchev. Antonio Taguba was not merely offended by what he saw...
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Menu of grizzly delights
It's summer time and the social life of fish takes Jens Krause to waters old and new, where he never tires of work in the natural lab. The summer is for me - as it is for most academics, I guess - a...
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Hold fire! This epic vessel has only just set sail...
For those of you out there slinging mud at string theory, just pause a minute to reflect, insists Leonard Susskind. No one is saying that it's the final word. Strange controversies reverberate...
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A more human scale to the maps
Nick Smith finds the Royal Geographical Society expanding its frontiers. Delegates to this year's annual conference at the Royal Geographical Society will notice something interesting. The front door...
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Checks on global inequity
Next week's conference, Global Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability , will be the biggest in the history of the Royal Geographical Society, with more than 1,000 papers. Anybody in London...
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Today's news
Half of university students give poor marks to lecturers Almost half of university students are unhappy or indifferent about the feedback they receive from lecturers, a major survey revealed...