The business of being a good v-c 3
For the past two years, I have been empirically examining the question: should top universities be led by top scholars? I have looked at leaders of 100 global universities and deans of 140 business...
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Don't take shine off 1
Why has Andy Pike, a University and College Union official, assumed the role of the Lord Protector of the teaching staff at Leeds Metropolitan University and with whose authority ("UCU anger at Leeds...
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Don't take shine off 2
Don't students deserve "glitzy graduations"? In a high-tech, fast-moving world, the sooner we move away from the stuffy- town-hall speech-laden scenario the better. Cost is an issue, but with...
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Long-term study
The feature "Minaret among the dreaming spires" (July 7) contains a number of statements that it is surprising to see in The Times Higher . One would have expected the writer to be aware that there...
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Pay deal not politics
The most striking thing about your page of comments on the recent pay dispute (Opinion, July 28) was not the views expressed, which probably represent a fair cross-section of what people in...
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Taking a view on Israel 1
David Hirsh has a remarkable ability to play fast and loose with the facts (Opinion, July 28). Or maybe he has been listening to too much Israeli propaganda. Wherever did he get the idea that...
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Taking a view on Israel 2
Every individual has a right to criticise any government, community or group anywhere in the world. But when a member criticises his own community publicly as a community member, the implication that...
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Debate not decision 1
Your article on the possible use of metrics to assess research quality in the arts and humanities ("Arts academics slate metrics", July ) triggered a number of concerns that are unfounded. The Higher...
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Debate not decision 2
Tim Birkhead's column on the lottery nature of research funding ("Working Knowledge, July 21) demonstrates why many academics rely on "self-funding". The UK must take care to ensure that any new...
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Never lost for words
As linguists prepare for their annual conference, Neil Smith and Ian Robinson do battle over the verbal high ground, debating the legacy of a linguistic icon Noam Chomsky has shown that there is...
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The false prophet's promise of apples
As linguists prepare for their annual conference, Neil Smith and Ian Robinson do battle over the verbal high ground, debating the legacy of a linguistic icon In 1975, I published The New...
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Trust us, we're not academics
Not that long ago, university press offices were manned by a couple of dons - now they are meaner machines, finds Harriet Swain In 1990, after more than 781 years, Cambridge University got its first...
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They're watching you
It pays to study people and their mores. Stephen Phillips learns why the corporate spotlight is turning on anthropologists A bland office building in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, seems an unlikely...
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The Greeks have a word for it...
..but the locals may think it's your poor grasp of language, says Joanna Bourke, who reveals how she plans to spend the long, hot summer months Summer starts the moment I see olive and fig trees...
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The strident echo of 'Miss Hissy'
In the second of our series, June Purvis connects with suffragettes through her collection of sometimes saucy ephemera As a child, I liked collecting things, especially miniature objects such as tea...