Alan Ryan
What of the 33 per cent of students who never finish at UEL?' The consultation on fair admissions represents too small a slice of the community and ignores the possibility of using numerical scores...
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Leader: Time running out for dual support
The dual-support system for research has few friends. Politicians who emphasise transparency do not enjoy the sight of money being spent without clear outcomes. In universities, dual support has not...
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Leader: Don't rush to satisfy
The postponement of England's first full student satisfaction survey until 2005 might be mildly embarrassing for ministers since the higher education white paper made the implausible promise...
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Leader: Time running out for dual support
The dual-support system for research has few friends. Politicians who emphasise transparency do not enjoy the sight of money being spent without clear outcomes. In universities, dual support has not...
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Leader: Don't rush to satisfy
The postponement of England's first full student satisfaction survey until 2005 might be mildly embarrassing for ministers since the higher education white paper made the implausible promise...
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Campus havens, classroom hell 1
I'd like to share my experience of teaching in a typical secondary school in response to Tina Brown's article ("Get a job in academe? You must be joking", THES , November 7). In the county in which I...
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Campus havens, classroom hell 2
From the periphery of the lecturers' labour market, I empathise with Tina Brown. But are academics "gutless"? The following ads for postgraduate research fellows appeared recently in The THES...
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Insular arguments
Alison Wolf (Columnist, THES , November 14) paints a dismal but familiar picture of UK higher education and its inherent parochialism. Only one sentence in the entire article mentions the benefits (...
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Pension pitfalls
Alexander Wedderburn's problem of non-recognition of his Universities Superannuation Scheme pension by German universities (Letters, THES , November 14) matches mine, but in reverse. I made my...
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Prudence on pay
If the Association of University Teachers is at odds with colleagues in other unions (Jocelyn Prudence, Letters, THES , November 14), it is because it does not strike two-year pay deals at 4am when...
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Les autres
As usual Laurie Taylor moved me to an involuntary snigger, this time with his column on solidarity with university administrators ( THES , November 14). It reminded me of when I was on an...
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Fat lot of good
Have the researchers who are developing a drug to burn excess fat ("Aston finds fat-buster clue", THES , 14 November) worked out the economics? We would be able to eat lots more fat and sugar with...
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Wrighting a wrong
Ever since he rejoined the Open University, Graham Gibbs has been a frequent visitor to the office next to mine to share a sandwich lunch with the occupant, Vicky Lewis, and on many occasions they...
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It's in the post-
"After theory"? Good riddance to poststructuralism, its flawed, failed ideas and obfuscations ("We're all theorists now", THES , November 14). Faced with a Kantian Nazi, Foucault's "very tenuous link...
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Photo fit?
May we have a proper photograph of Phil Baty? A man who can jump to far-fetched conclusions while blowing a whistle with his foot in his mouth should be something for the anatomists to ponder. Alan...