Letter: Tory defence danger
The Conservative Party's proposal to privatise British universities would damage the country's economy and defence ("Tories' bold ideas need to show some substance", THES, January 26). Market forces...
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Letter: Coffee break
If teachers at Leeds University still have their own staff coffee room (Letters, THES, January 26), they should congratulate themselves on their good fortune and stop whingeing. Anthony Beck London
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Letter: Golden oldies
A notable feature of the table of vice-chancellors' pay was that many large increases were given to those in their final year before retirement ("Exit under a cloud with a pot of gold", THES, January...
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Letter: Bottom lines
I was interested to read that Baroness Warwick, with whom Association of University Teachers comrades might find it difficult to make small talk when they present our petition, represents UUK (...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (1)
I work in the business school of a "new" university, and most of my students, like those of Frank Furedi, are here only "to get a better job" ("Why I ... think universities are becoming anti-...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (2)
A worrying trend towards what I perceive to be "educational Taylorism" prevails in universities. Many students feel like battery hens - force-fed information solely to produce a perfect exam answer....
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (3)
There has been an increasing trend to view the purpose of universities as the production of streams of "work-ready" graduates. Unfortunately, the real losers in this process are the students, who do...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (5)
In Student Focus (THES, January 19), Frank Furedi points to lowest common denominator undergraduate courses devised to meet access targets, while Diane Purkiss contrasts teaching for the bright and...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (4)
Frank Furedi highlights the difficulty of challenging students intellectually. This problem will grow as younger colleagues are initiated into the Quality Assurance Agency-led culture of reductionist...
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Leader: Respect for people will win informed consent
This week's report on the widespread clandestine retention of body parts at Alder Hey hospital and elsewhere uncovers practices aptly described as grotesque by health secretary Alan Milburn. Its...
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Leader: Any reform must put the interests of students first
This week's academic asset exchanges on Humberside are only the latest sign that the landscape of British higher education is starting to alter after many years in which fundamental change has been...
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Vital research put at risk
Researchers fear that a knee-jerk reaction to the Alder Hey body parts scandal could hit vital medical research and teaching. In the wake of the Redfern report, medical schools insist procedures to...
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Latest UK news
MPs call for higher repayment threshold MPs on the cross-party education select committee have told higher education minister Baroness Blackstone that the government should ...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES John Wood, dean of engineering at Nottingham University, has been appointed chief executive of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. Researchers in Canada and the United...
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Why I take television series seriously as subjects for academic study
One of the most interesting things for me as a film historian is the development of what is called short-form television - series that have half-hour and hour-long episodes. In my lectures, I look...