Inflating an age-old debate 3
In the latest issue of The Times Higher , there are four articles bemoaning the lowering of standards in UK higher education and the external pressures making it difficult for us to produce graduates...
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Inflating an age-old debate 4
It is pretty rich for Kenneth Minogue to argue that universities surrender their integrity by dependence on the state when he acknowledges that when they were subsidised by the University Grants...
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Marked concern 1
Assuming the fraction of pay Warwick University plans to withhold from staff for participation in the assessment boycott is accurate ("Dispute Dispatches", April 21), then staff there spend an...
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Marked concern 2
The National Union of Students is refusing to end its full support for the Association of University Teachers' assessment boycott and is also refusing to carry out any research into student opinion....
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Marked concern 3
It is no wonder that universities and further education colleges are finding it hard to recruit well-qualified, experienced and motivated staff. As a senior teacher with 30 years' experience, I...
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Not waving
I was disappointed to read the letter from a group of academics from Keele University questioning a series of decisions taken by the university senate (April 28). The decisions were made after...
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Money troubles
So "giving students from poor families significant sums of money at the beginning of the academic year could be 'asking for trouble'" (News, April 7)? What patronising arrogance. These students might...
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Flawed and biased
R. W. Hoyle (Letters, April 28) is right: Agricultural History does not illustrate my point that the draft listings in the European Reference Index for the Humanities reflect a "white, male,...
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Reinventing the work
The proposal to adopt "cost-cutting tactics of multinational corporations and begin outsourcing work overseas" does nothing to solve the problem of inefficient administration ("Outsource to save cash...
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Legal aid?
The article "Lawyers to cash in if degrees derailed", April 21) states that legal firms are "preparing to handle extra student grievances with the introduction of top-up fees". Given that tuition...
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Classical dishes
May I suggest to Peter Urquhart (Review, April 28), that to describe Indian classical music as "the ubiquitous background sound of the British curry house" is like saying that Elgar is the standard...
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ICT supplement No. 7
 ICT in higher education Published in The Times Higher on May 5 2006 Leader  "A new generation has grown up with technology and is as comfortable with a keyboard as with a pen" Crystal clear for...
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Hired guns offer aid in today's cut-throat market
Overseas consultants are advising UK universities on how to keep ahead of their rivals, says Stephen Phillips As the global competition for students, star academics and cash hots up, many British...
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'They can kick us hard, but they also hold out a helping hand'
When Cambridge University was deciding how its 800th anniversary could best be used not only to celebrate its history but also to raise much-needed money, it turned to US consultant Anthony Knerr,...
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It's not just the eyes that have it
The academy was for centuries blind to anything that could not be rendered into text, but a 'sensory' revolution is afoot, discovers Sara Wajid When I asked Sukhdev Sandhu to write about a Muslim...