Assembly and academia must serve each other
The Welsh Assembly should give higher education new, larger roles to help the region, says Brian Smith. "Nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth" ("A nation's strength is in its learning"). This message is carved...
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The delicate web that ties research together
Universities in the UK get more than Pounds 2.6 billion a year for research. The mainstay is the funding and research councils, which provide just over half of this cash. But, despite the recent...
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Top of the heap
I much enjoyed the article on the award of "the country's first doctorate in composting" ("Where there's muck there's a doctorate", THES, March 19). My interest will somehow need to be conveyed to my...
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Ins and outcomes
In common with other university staff I have spoken to, I am appalled at the recent consultation document from the Institute for Learning and Teaching. From the start membership of this institute was...
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Ins and outcomes
I am not surprised that objections have been flooding in about the ILT's proposals ("A club no one wants to join", THES, April 9). It is not just that evidence must be presented to support 24...
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Scholarship stifled by admin
David Cannadine's analysis of what is wrong with British universities is on target ("Yale, Harvard, Bloomsbury", THES, April 16). British academia is overwhelmed with administrative demands....
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Scholarship stifled by admin
David Cannadine is right to point to the "debilitating combination of inadequate resources and excessive bureaucracy" in higher education as "lethal" to the making and sustaining of a creative...
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Scholarship stifled by admin
David Cannadine's proposal for a University of Bloomsbury is entirely wrong-headed. Birkbeck and University College London do indeed have strong international reputations in the humanities. They also...
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Scholarship stifled by admin
There is no real harm in playing Monopoly with the University of London, as David Cannadine does. But at least two of the pieces on his board - the Senate House Library and the institutes - have been...
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Canon fire
Antony Easthope ("Englit must transform itself", THES, April 16) sounds both bizarrely anachronistic and inconsistent. How many higher education departments, worldwide, now use the "Englit" label -...
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Canon fire
So English "must transform itself"? Where has Antony Easthope been hiding for the past ten (20) years? A survey of the undergraduate curriculum by the Council for College and University English last...
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Canon fire
"Whatever Hamlet meant in 1603 it meant something different to Dr Johnson, to Freud and to us. It will mean something different in future." Did Hamlet really have one uniform meaning in 1603, or for...
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Unhealthy trend
While it is commendable that more higher education students should go to further education colleges ("Cinderella steps out", THES, April 16), FE colleges do not have the tradition, or culture, of...
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We must deny bullies a pulpit
Why is bullying so prevalent in higher education and how can we deal with it? Cary Cooper reports. Workplace bullying is a widespread problem. When the Trades Union Congress set up a telephone hot-...
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Make work part of study
Every student, no matter their degree, ought to undertake work experience,says David Blunkett. Students today are increasingly applying for modern vocational courses, those related to information and...