Laurie Taylor column
The SOG (Staff Optimization Group) is pleased to announce another new proactive initiative course: "Handling the Balance Between Work and Life". Who will benefit: Anyone who finds it difficult to...
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Alan Ryan
Socrates is our man if we want a Big Conversation about higher education (but we might need to up the hemlock intake) Whatever the fate of the government's higher education bill, the debate over top-...
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Alan Ryan
Socrates is our man if we want a Big Conversation about higher education (but we might need to up the hemlock intake)Whatever the fate of the government’s higher education bill, the debate over top-...
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Leader: A fair wind, but not plain sailing
It would be a brave investor who put money into a business that had profit margins of half a per cent. But for English universities, which are recording surpluses of this size, such an outcome should...
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Leader: Visitors not welcome
The US once had an enviable reputation for welcoming academics and attracting some of the best brains on earth. But it is becoming increasingly clear that this era is coming to an end. A wall is...
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Leader: A fair wind, but not plain sailing
It would be a brave investor who put money into a business that had profit margins of half a per cent. But for English universities, which are recording surpluses of this size, such an outcome should...
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Leader: Visitors not welcome
The US once had an enviable reputation for welcoming academics and attracting some of the best brains on earth. But it is becoming increasingly clear that this era is coming to an end. A wall is...
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Degree in plumbing - why not?
The division between academic and vocational education is increasingly meaningless, if not counterproductive ("Vocation is not just foundation", Leader, THES , January 16). Most university courses,...
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Blakemore was right
Martin Ince (Opinion, THES , January 9) suggested that Colin Blakemore "missed the point when he threatened to quit the Medical Research Council over the honours shenanigans". However, it is Ince who...
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An 'old' chestnut 1
Who is Mark Thompson of Hay Group trying to kid by blaming university pay problems on "traditional" staff attitudes ("Why I", THES , January 16)? Far from "pressing for reform", governments have...
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An 'old' chestnut 2
I see that Oxford colleges are now advertising academic positions to be remunerated on "an age-related scale" (Classified, THES , January 16). At least it is explicit. Isn't it time pay-scale rules...
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Publishing pitfalls 1
Agents are not vital for getting published ("The Myth of Giddens' Porsche", THES , January 16). I have tried five literary agents. None succeeded in placing any of my books. All wasted my time with...
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Publishing pitfalls 2
A youthful Laurie Taylor or similar figure hoping to make their reputation by publishing today would find it considerably harder than in the 1960s. The research assessment exercise has led to a lot...
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Bill of wrongs 1
The extra 10 per cent funding per part-time student heralded for Birkbeck, the Open University and other similar institutions from 2004-05 is a myth ("Grants gamble to save bill", THES , January 9)....
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Bill of wrongs 2
Female graduates earn the same as males with A levels - £22,000-£23,000 aged 30 to 50 years. Male graduates earn about £13,000 more. Females with A levels earn between £10,000 and £12,000. This shows...