Leader: Admissions row misses the point
The chances of a clear-headed decision on the merits of post-qualification admissions to higher education receded further this week, as politics intruded on an already fraught debate. Research on...
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Leader: A push from within
Red tape is an easy target, especially where funding councils are concerned. No system of allocating money has yet been devised that could not be simplified, and there are often good reasons for...
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Looking for fair play on fair pay 1
How welcome to see an editorial that celebrates the high salary benchmarks being set by the Association of Univer-sity Teachers' pay deals ("Magic of the market", October 7).JThe message to the 80...
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Looking for fair play on fair pay 2
A vice-chancellor in a post-92 university says his institution has a job evaluation scheme of "such stupefying complexity" that it ensures equal pay for work of equal value (Letters, October 7). He...
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Looking for fair play on fair pay 3
The vice-chancellor of the University of Central England is gratified and feels that the academic staff at Oxford University deserve to be the lowest paid in the country (Letters, October 7). I see...
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Looking for fair play on fair pay 4
The article "'Deplorable' pay inequity persists" (September 30) highlights that female academics are paid less than males. Other research has shown that they also have less academic success. An...
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Wrong on right to die
I must object to the headline "Right-to-die advocate keen to lead ethics discourse" and to the introduction of an article based on an interview with me (October 7). The description of me as a "right-...
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Short-sighted Soas
Staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies are distressed about two senior subject-librarians (Sue Small and Fujiko Kobayashi) being made redundant and two others under threat. These...
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In theory 1
As regards literary theory ("It's curtains for the gadfly of the piece", October 7), an important consideration should be its effect on the way literature is studied in schools, where many graduates...
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In theory 2
As a part-time mature student, I completed an English literature degree this year at a university priding itself on its position at the cutting-edge of the critical theory scene. I felt uneasy about...
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In theory 3
I note with interest, and also some dismay, that your straw poll on literary theory ("Has deconstruction had its day in class?", October 7) was conducted among "members of top-rated English...
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Open not shut case 1
Like many anti-religious militants, A. C. Grayling equates religion with its narrowest versions ("Amen to the pursuit of truth and reason", October 7). Understandable today, no doubt, but not from a...
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Open not shut case 2
"As the paradigm of responsible belief formation, religion is open, creative and always subject to debate. Science is dogmatic, final, closed, knows all the answers, damns as superstitious or...
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Serial victim
Your article "Serial litigant hit £100K mark", (News, July 29) purported to cover the outcome of tribunal claims of discrimination and victimisation against Nottingham University and Ian Gow by...
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Road to peace is paved with small miracles
The unlikely friendship between a Gaza Arab and an Israeli Jew in a London university gives Bill Parry hope It was the shopping trolley that brought them together. Separated back home by decades of...