What price new moves to halt the brain drain?
Wednesday's surprise extra research cash is welcome - even if once again the government is taking credit for spending other people's money. Particularly welcome is the proposed rise in PhD stipends....
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Forget the cultural stuff, just give them the lingo
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
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Greenaway's stark warning: pay or decay
The Greenaway report makes the case for differential fees -accompanied by scholarships, bursaries and income-contingent loans - in the most rigorous terms yet. The report's authors, themselves...
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Waging war on local bargaining
No one could be surprised by a vice-chancellor advocating the benefits of local pay bargaining (Soapbox, THES, June 30), but those belonging to an association other than the Committee of Vice-...
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Waging war on local bargaining
How many lecturers really believe that an isolated local union branch could get them a better deal than all branches acting together? Peter Knight claims local pay bargaining would be more flexible...
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Waging war on local bargaining
Few will be surprised by the failure of university teachers to win a substantial pay rise this year. Indeed, it seems unlikely academic salaries will ever catch up with the private sector and that...
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Passing a moral buck
What drives Joanna Bourke to classify as "cowardice" the healthy instinct for self-preservation, the taking of responsible decisions about the welfare of families and one's own future, and moral and...
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Standard baring
Brian Brivati is entitled to his views about Oxford, but he seems to have based much of his argument on a simple fallacy (Soapbox, THES, June 30). Teaching quality assessment says nothing about the...
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Standard baring
Brian Brivati helpfully notes that his own Kingston University was responding to the needs of society but without declaring which particular society he had in mind. As joint editor of New Labour in...
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Thirst for firsts
The debate over University of York vice-chancellor Ron Cooke's "plea for firsts" to external examiners will surely surprise few academics or university administrators (News, THES, June 30). The...
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Thirst for firsts
The study on degree classifications referred to in your story was a collaborative undertaking contributed to by colleagues from Anglia Polytechnic, Derby, Liverpool John Moores, London Guildhall and...
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Offside broadside
Gary Day's review of my book Dumbing Down (Books, THES, June 30) is so full of misinformation and misrepresentation that it could well merit a place in the Guinness Book of Records. First, my book...
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Offside broadside
I have never heard of Gary Day, which means that I know as much about him as he seems to know about me and LM, the magazine I edited until it was forced to close following a libel case brought by ITN...
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It's time to pay up for fairness and quality
If universities can't set their own fees, they will sink. David Greenaway and Michelle Haynes, and (below) David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, make the case for charging students up to Pounds 4,000...
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Bigger fees - or failure
If universities can't set their own fees, they will sink. David Greenaway and Michelle Haynes, and (below) David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, make the case for charging students up to Pounds 4,000...