Letter: In brief 1
It is absurd for Martin Coyle to suggest that Wales, which has less than half the population of Yorkshire, should have six or seven strong civic universities with their own medical schools (Letters,...
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Letter: In brief 2
Your vice-chancellors and principals pay league included a rise awarded to Robert Withers, principal of the University College of Scarborough (Analysis, THES , February 8). His pay package was not...
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Letter: In brief 3
Patrick Murphy (Letters, THES , February 15) refers to grievances against Association of University Teachers staff. The AUT sets out a comprehensive complaints procedure for members. Complaints...
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Letter: In brief 4
When I was on the staff of Royal Holloway, University of London, I played some part in the events surrounding the sale of three paintings from the picture collection. I have agreed to write an...
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Letter: Top tip on reviewing
May I express my appreciation for Frank Webster's frankness in reviewing my book After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century? (Books, THES , February 1)....
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Disparity is a disgrace
Susan Bassnett is outraged that a v-c on a £165,000 salary would pay an academic £16, 500 a year So Margaret Hodge is going to investigate vice-chancellors' pay awards. Not before time. With the...
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Work harder to bring inmore Bulgarian leaders
Educating foreign students brings many benefits. Denis MacShane says we must strive to attract more of them. Just before Christmas the Bulgarian Socialist Party elected a new president. Sergei...
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Leader: Adopting the MIT model will bring a richer, freer future
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology embodies the entrepreneurial model for modern research universities that is being urged on leading United Kingdom institutions by the government and, in...
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Is it safe in the locker room?
Is men's search for a masculine identity in sport linkedto male aggression? Jim Denison meets an expert in the field The leather jacket, shaved head, muscular frame and earring defy one stereotype....
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The golden triangle holds the secret
The time is ripe for privatisation in higher education, argue Paul Clark and Mike Baxter, while Jonathan Rutherford says universities need state aid. In an ideal world, the United Kingdom's...
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HEplc needs a state subsidy
The time is ripe for privatisation in higher education, argue Paul Clark and Mike Baxter, while Jonathan Rutherford says universities need state aid. Corporate language has become the fashion in...
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For a bit more security and satisfaction, 'unbundle'
The time is ripe for privatisation in higher education, argue Paul Clark and Mike Baxter, while Jonathan Rutherford says universities need state aid. Like many recent crusades in the name of the...
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A collaboration that coloured and crazed
A new exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam, looks at how nine weeks together in Arles shaped the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin. Derwent May reports. Every picture may tell a...
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Keeping up with the smart 'set'
Some universities are using a controversial streaming system to bring weaker students up to speed. Are they getting results or are they simply reinforcing feelings of failure? Harriet Swain reports....
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A global crisis we can't turn our backs on
The University of East London refugee studies programme is enabling research, free from prejudice, of a growing minority in most societies, says Philip Marfleet. Refugees have become a preoccupation...