In need of cold truth
In a week when the science of climate change (the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' publication Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change ) and its fictional counterpart (the ITV1 drama...
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Unfair to Oxford 1
It is an odd experience to read in a reputable newspaper of a world you know well described in terms that are virtually unrecognisable. That was my experience of your stories about Oxford University...
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Unfair to Oxford 2
The Oxford student contract was born several years ago from a laudable wish to ensure that students know the terms of the contract that exists between a student and a university. In the case of...
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Step towards new age
The quotes from New Age Thinking ("Staff unready for new age challenges, survey says", February 3) were taken out of context and imply that age stereotyping is unique to the higher education sector....
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Counts as a good time
I was surprised that no one took issue with the statement in "It's hard to count on statisticians" (January ) that "even a social scientist would admit that number-crunching is one of the least...
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The right words 1
The caption under my photo accompanying the article about the late Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi ("He did all that was possible - he saved 150 Jews", January ) quoted me as saying: "There is a...
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The right words 2
For a long time now, I, my late mother and many others who owe their lives to the infinite humanity and courage of Andrei Sheptytskyi have been campaigning for Yad Vashem to acknowledge that he is...
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Celebrate stability
The letter "Unchanging times" (January ) complains that when universities move away from the use of fixed-term contracts for researchers this makes good headlines but is "functionally irrelevant"....
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Local produce
Sussex University biology student Ben Hart stripped off for the Environmental Society's calendar to publicise the drive for a more sustainable future on campus for staff and students. The calendar is...
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No 'crisis' as science loses allure
The number of UK students taking PhDs in science subjects is continuing to plummet, according to official figures. The percentage of UK students taking PhDs in physics fell by 15 per cent between...
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Ucas to pilot centralised postgrad admissions service
The UK is on course to have a centralised postgraduate admissions system by 2008, a conference on postgraduate education will hear next week, writes Claire Sanders. Anthony McClaran, chief executive...
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Unions say 'no' to pay talks
Academic trade unions have rebuffed a move by employers to reopen pay negotiations, refusing to put planned industrial action on hold unless vice-chancellors put a "substantive offer on the table"....
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Threat to suspend death-in-service benefits
Lecturers' unions accused the University College for the Creative Arts this week of trying to "intimidate" lecturers into pulling out of planned strike action, by threatening to suspend their death-...
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Exhibit A: a wealth of 'tartan noir'
Scotland's two-decade domination of the detective novel is being put under the magnifying glass by an international academic journal. Scottish writers such as Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Christopher...
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Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments
Academics need more training to help them avoid cultural clashes and misunderstandings with the rising number of overseas students they must teach and supervise, according to international students'...