Less work - more study and cash 3
As the press officer for www.stuffyourloans.co.uk , I have to say that I am not in the least bit surprised at the figures in your article on top-up fees. I am also pleased that our request...
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Permanent problem 1
In response to the letters (December 16) on the article about our report ("End the 'jobs for life' culture", December 9), our paper, published in International Studies of Management and Organisation...
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Permanent problem 2
The research at Leeds University that suggests that higher education needs to model itself on industry by using more fixed-term contracts is based on a flawed understanding of temporary employment in...
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Free to speak truth
While I agree substantially with Roy Harris ("Speaking out for the right to speak evil", December 9), he has overlooked one of the major reservations about complete freedom of speech. Free speech is...
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Quality checked
The private providers of higher education in Sri Lanka featured in the report "UK links' quality checked" (December 9) are not unaccredited, as the Sri Lankan University Grants Commission would have...
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Completely open?
While it is true that some fellows of the Royal Society did sign a joint letter expressing opposition to the society's views on open-access publishing, readers of your article "Fellows fight society...
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Reliable rigour
Your discussion of participa-tory research could have been a little more scholarly ("Research by public could be 'unreliable'", December 16). In participatory research,Jmembers of the public are...
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Purposeful point
In his review, Gordon Johnson endorses the claim made in Gordon Graham's book The Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education (Books, December 9) that "there has been...
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A case for debate
To find out why Pakistani applicants are disadvantaged when applying to law schools, researchers must not forget the context of the source of the data ("Law schools in dock over race", December 2)....
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WLTM: red-hot physicist, oozing grey cells
With ever more academics turning to dating agencies, Harriet Swain grabs a glass to mingle with some real talent It's singles night at the London Review of Books' Bloomsbury bookstore and the shop...
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Pssst, you're a natural gossip
Idle chat and text messaging are modern curses, right? Wrong, says Simon Blackburn, they are simply 21st-century versions of ancient rituals. OhmyGod Are changes in communication altering, for the...
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'I'm an Academic ... Get Me Out of Here'
Abandoned in a forest in a swirling snow storm, a band of brave university staff struggle to find the pub yet still encounter some festive spirit in John Gilbey's seasonal short story The vice-...
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With research like this, a 4* rating is just pie in the sky
Angela Thody previews her paper on mince-pie consumption to the All Comers Faithfully Winterfest Conference Ever conscious of the impending research assessment exercise, where everything possible...
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How was '05 for...
... Oliver Double Lecturer in stand-up comedy at Kent University What did you make of government policy? It's not so much individual bits of policy, it's more the general direction that goes back to...
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The ethos is religious, but it's not antiscience
Africa's Christian universities are a far cry from fundamentalist US ones, says Kevin Ward Education has long been associated with religion in Africa. The term "reader" has often been used to...