Laurie Taylor column
" The Leadership Foundation for ÌÇÐÄVlog is to run a series of masterclasses for university leaders " - The Times Higher , March 26. Good morning and welcome. Let me say straightaway that it'...
" The Leadership Foundation for ÌÇÐÄVlog is to run a series of masterclasses for university leaders " - The Times Higher , March 26. Good morning and welcome. Let me say straightaway that it'...
Once more economic arguments threaten to dominate the debate over the expansion of universities. On the eve of a second crucial Commons vote on the government's plans for top-up fees, much was made...
The latest complaint against the research assessment exercise is that it is damaging British innovation by taking cash away from university departments that carry out research with a comparatively...
Susan Blackmore's ill-informed review lists one side of a debate on consciousness but not the other. Making sense of the causal interaction of consciousness and brains is puzzling but important....
Gary Day's columns should be published as a collection. I welcome his wit, irony, comical accounts of absurd but all-too-real occurrences, and merciless focus on the ever-increasing distractions that...
Bristol University has not disaffiliated from the National Union of Students as your editorial states ("Help the union to avoid last orders", March 26). A majority of the students who took part in a...
Your editorial takes the decline in support for student union bars as a simple fact rather than looking at a social problem. If it is really true that students are drinking less, not only will this...
Queen Mary, University of London, has just introduced inspections of toilets before examinations. Will this practice become bog standard? Jeff Duckett Queen Mary, University of London
Reporting that "Sociology has an identity crisis" (March 26) suggests that it had a coherent identity. But there has always been vigorous debate about the nature of the subject, its boundaries and...
Mo Dodson (Letters, March 26) should read your article "Animal tests 'upsetting but important'" (March 19) or see the video it describes instead of condemning the photograph of an undergraduate of...
G. R. Berridge's labelling of the AUT as "the Association of Useless Tactics" (Letters, March 19) looked shaky even before publication of the employers' new offer. Now it is clear that the AUT tactic...
The decline in student numeracy and literacy ("Straight-A students show shaky grasp of the basics", March 26) suggests an alternative approach that the Association of University Teachers could take...
AUT communications have made it perfectly clear that the memorandum of understanding between it and employers will not lead to rises as high as 12 per cent for colleagues at the top of scales. Indeed...
Just to say that following your completely biased reporting of the lecturers' pay dispute, this department is now unwilling to continue its subscription to your anti-AUT Murdoch rag. Johnny...
The BBC's decision not to broadcast the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures is disappointing ("Lectures might be ghost of Xmas past", March 26). For many children, particularly those from...