Deal with a little local problem 3
According to "Where are top union hot spots?" (May 5), Association of University Teachers' membership at Warwick University stands at 230, representing a union density of per cent. In fact, Warwick...
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Deal with a little local problem 4
We read with interest the article that suggested growing rifts within and between the various interest groupings in Universities UK ("Rifts threaten unified voice", April 28). But the article tells...
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No room for thought 1
One might have thought that a university's assistant director of estates who detected dust on academics' bookshelves would have considered how effective she was in managing the university's cleaning...
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No room for thought 2
Contrary to the assertion that little research has been carried out on open-plan offices, there is a body of literature showing that in a variety of organisations they are seen to enhance individual...
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No room for thought 3
You report that there are plans to phase out or replace some private studies with open-plan offices. Unfortunately, building layouts do not alter social reality. The Dr Piercemuller factor will still...
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Intellectual ancestors
The local elections once again confirmed the growing local presence of the British National Party. Having spent the past year interviewing BNP activists, local and regional organisers, and national...
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Make it count
The advice given to those want-ing to write a bestseller (May 5) to "avoid titles with three nouns such as Teaching Maths to Pupils with Special Needs in Secondary Schools , which appeal only to...
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Exercise that intellect 1
Alan Ryan (Opinion, April 28) thinks, rightly, that IQ is pseudo-scientific junk, but is moved to say so only by the chance it gives him to attack the people on the receiving end of it. If it is junk...
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Exercise that intellect 2
If Alan Ryan wants universities to "nourish the dissenter...", he should go not to John Stuart Mill, but to the critical hermeneutics and ecologism explaining closed minds and the causes of our woes...
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Exercise that intellect 3
The answer to George MacDonald Ross's letter about complaints thatstandards have been lowered (May 5) is: "damn braces, bless relaxes". We should not relax. Alan Ryan Warden New College Oxford
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Psychological warfare
The report that De Montfort University is contemplating withdrawing from accreditation by the British Psychological Society ("Course loses quality stamp", April 28) should come as good news to those...
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First blocks of a customised campus
A personalised service works wonders for Lego, but will the same tactic benefit students? asks Jessica Shepherd Bosses at Lego had a brainwave last September. Why not continue to mass produce the...
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Give people reasons to give and don't trust all to luck - but be nice and keep your fingers crossed
If serendipity does not drop a big gift in your lap, make sure you are courting donors, says Olga Wojtas Richard Davies, the Russian archivist of Leeds University library's special collections, was...
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'Law is not on our side, but honour is. We won't give up'
Oxford's Christ Church College is involved in a dispute with a Japanese university over a book that was stolen from its library. Peter McGill investigates Just over a decade ago, a rare 16th-century...
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It hasn't yet sunk in, but hippy is no longer chic
Why don't creative writing courses engage with the avant-garde 'naked' form of English today, asks Sara Wajid Globalisation and the internet are radically altering English, according to David Crystal...