Laurie Taylor
From: The vice-chancellor and chief executive To: All academic staff As one or two of you might be vaguely aware, The THES recently published a league table purporting to show the increases in salary...
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Alan Ryan
Does Britain have class the way that America has race? If so, can positive discrimination do any good? The item in Charles Clarke's white paper on the future of higher education that has attracted...
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Leader: Build a research elite and ensure freedom for rest
There is no point trying to stop academics doing research. Even in new universities, which have almost no official funding for it, research goes on, papers are published and research degrees are...
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Leader: Recruiting free-for-all will bring instability
Top-up fees and restrictions on research funds represent the public face of the government's proposed higher education "market". But student enrolment figures published this week show that fissures...
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Now class, let's get that down in writing
Is literacy in decline? Harriet Swain looks at efforts to improve student writing It has become a common gripe among lecturers that students no longer know how to construct an academic argument in an...
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Reader, you are not welcome
Is literacy in decline? Alan Sinfield bridles at narrow lit crit's sidelining of audiences Twenty years ago today, it was plausible to debate the principles that might underlie literary reading. In...
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Can we build an urban utopia?
The city should be a sphere of active democratic participation, argues David Harvey, but to achieve this, we must roll back the huge wave of privatisation The city, the noted urban sociologist Robert...
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Resting place for heads of state
Royal death masks, revolutionary corpses and grisly, sensationalistic tableaux of gruesome murders. At Madame Tussaud's, Pamela Pilbeam found a remarkable historical archive, not just Kylie Minogue...
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Cooking for terrorists
To understand terrorism, we must get close to terrorists, says Rohan Gunaratna, who has talked with Tamil Tigers, drunk with IRA men and discussed the Koran with Taliban fighters In 1984 I...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 1
Andrew Oswald relates vice-chancellors' pay (Soapbox, THES , February 7) to that of chief executives in business and industry, where rates can be as high as £500,000 to £1 million a year. Most people...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 2
Vice-chancellors' pay is rightly a matter for monitoring and public comment ("Union fury as v-cs pocket 6% pay rise", THES , February 7). Comment, however, should be based on proper comparisons. Your...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 3
In 1918, Thorstein Veblen said the US university was in decline because it had become "a business enterprise, bureaucratically organised under its 'captain of erudition', in pursuit of 'notoriety,...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 4
It is all very well to instruct the juveniles of academe to temper their envy of v-cs' pay. However, the rank and file might be justified in thinking that bosses who lead from the front in receiving...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 5
The failure to raise the London weighting to a level comparable to other public-sector workers has aggravated the problem of recruiting and keeping staff. The recent announcement of more funds for...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 6
"Salaries in universities have to be competitive with those paid outside academia," says Andrew Oswald. But why does he think this applies only to vice-chancellors? Amanda Hopkins Rugby