Laurie Taylor Column
"Today's students need much more spoon-feeding than previous generations of undergraduates" - Times Higher survey, September 17 Imogen? Is that you lurking outside the door? Do come in. Please sit...
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Leader: Separate worlds, common cause
Two international conferences in less than a month have focused on the relationship between higher education and the media - testament, if any were required, to the growing recognition that the two...
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Leader: University own goals
Most honorary degrees are uncontroversial, awarded as they are to eminent academics or figures who have a longstanding association with a university. But recent months have seen a rash of awards that...
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Bribed and bullied, but by whom? 1
For many months I have been puzzled by the attitude of the Association of University Teachers to Nottingham University's new pay system for academic-related staff. Unlike the other campus unions, the...
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Bribed and bullied, but by whom? 2
Management at Nottingham University repeatedly makes the assertion that "the new pay structure for academic-related staff had been fully consulted on and accepted by 99 per cent of staff". It...
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Knuckleheaded view
It is clear that Robert Kagan seeks to vindicate the argument in his book Paradise and Power at the same time as distancing himself from the mess that the Bush Administration has got itself into (...
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Wild reasoning
Nancy Rothwell can justify vivisection only by raising irrelevant issues (Columnist, September 17). She says donations to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals normally exceed...
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A final say
After 31 years' service at what is now London Metropolitan University, I am leaving to join another university. I am proud to have been part of an institution that has played a leading role in...
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Not-so-choice cuts
Fears that students from Northern Ireland will be forced to study outside the province are well founded ("Students demand rise in NI enrolment", September 3). This tendency is likely to worsen if...
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Lost stats
Laurie Taylor missed the following statistics in his column (September 17): 57 per cent of students have a part-time job to make ends meet (as do 9 per cent of lecturers); 23 per cent of students...
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E in Exeter
About 500 of us at the Association for Learning Technology conference last week attended the ceremony for the Higher Education Academy (ALT)/ Times Higher sponsored E-Tutor of the Year Award (News,...
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Out for the count
Five per cent of academics aged between 35 and 40 "don't know" whether they are actively pursuing a career outside academe ( Times Higher survey, September 17). Should someone in authority be...
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Frank about Frank
As if there aren't enough Grumpy Old Men writing for The Times Higher , no sooner do I renew my subscription than you announce Frank Furedi is to be a regular feature. True to the form of his...
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Positive vision
I have a great deal of sympathy and empathy with the difficulties described in the Soapbox on contract researchers (August 6). I was on fixed-term research contracts for the first eight years of my...
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Assessing the facts
As a member of the Department for Education and Skills working group on disabled students allowances (DSAs) and specific learning difficulties, I would like to point out several errors in the Soapbox...