Terry Philpot meets a social work academic who left a chair to do what he could not do at a university - combine teaching and practice The climb to occupy a professorial chair is often such a long...
ICT in higher education, Issue No. 1 Published in The Times Higher on February 7 2003  Leader  'British higher education cannot take the chance that technology is simply another passing fad'...
Academics seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to any suggestion that they did not make ("Get out your module maps", THES , January 31). Module descriptors are not an "iron cage", as Todd Landman...
I thoroughly support Todd Landman's views on institutional audit, the supposedly "light touch" for universities. Academics are becoming so chained to and restricted by processes that insurrection is...
The argument that someone who downloads pornographic images from the internet without showing or distributing them to others bears responsibility for the child abuse involved in making the images is...
The way to an adolescent's mathematical heart is through the staple diet he or she is fed ("Your task: identify the falling interest rate in mathematics", THES , January 31). Yet official reports...
Reports of the demise of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education are greatly exaggerated ("Teaching academy could doom ILT", THES , January 31). The ILTHE, formerly the ILT, in...
The ILTHE is not "doomed" by the white paper proposals for a new academy. It should be a major contributor to its success. In a very short time, the institute has established itself as a professional...
If education secretary Charles Clarke and vice-chancellors are serious about enhancing learning and teaching, they need to reform restrictive personnel policies regarding academic-related staff....
Sa'ad Medhat complains that four-year accredited MEng is failing to attract students ("A new beginning for a strained relationship", THES , January 24). But why complain when the Engineering Council...
Sa'ad Medhat is out of touch about what the engineering industry wants and what universities provide. Why has industry been snapping up engineering graduates? Why have the salaries of graduating...
Susan Bassnett understates the degree of arbitrary divergence in PhD procedures (Soapbox, THES , January 10). She criticises differences in interpretation of criteria for referrals. Far more...
Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial College London, receives an index-linked pension of £700,000 from GlaxoSmithKline and £46,000 from his part-time job as a non-executive director of Rio Tinto,...
If Tony Blair is determined to go down the route of dedicated taxes and contributions, why not start with war? Let war be funded by a specific tax paid by those who choose to be in the war business....
Brussels, 05 Feb 2003 The GI-GIS project of the Joint Research Centre's institute for environment and sustainability is organising its ninth workshop on the theme of 'European spatial data...