Need for partners as big business muscles in
The threat of global competition, particularly from the US, is finally coming home to UK universities. Those eager to exploit the opportunities, like the Open University, are the exception....
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Army retreat still leaves bullets flying on campus
After 15 years of military rule, Nigeria has a chance for democracy. John Morgan and Michael Omolewa call on academia to play its part There are high expectations in Nigeria as the transition to...
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Mr Brown sows seedcorn for bumper harvest
The good news for higher education in this week's Budget is on the research side. Directly, modest but most welcome extra sums were announced for the University Challenge Fund and for infrastructure...
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Singular failure to tackle plurality
The under-representation of non-white academics in British universities ("The colour blind spot", THES, March 5) is little short of a scandal, but by focusing almost exclusively on recruitment...
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Singular failure to tackle plurality
It was interesting to see the list of art and music colleges with no black academics. Many are very small, with fewer than 1,000 students and a staff of 100 full-time equivalent or fewer. Art schools...
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Meme, myself and I
As Stephen R. L. Clark (Letters, THES, March 5) reminds us, selection, as metaphor or explanation, has a long currency in endeavours to express the power of Locke's "ideas and images of men's minds"...
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Schooled in cynicism
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' response to evidence of widespread, institutional sex discrimination, resulting in systematic underpayment of women, surprises even this jaded...
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Cut your cloth...
The presentation of the two arguments, should fashion students be taught to take risks or to play it safe ("Cutting it in the fashion world", THES, March 5) misses one of the basic tenets of British...
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E-book binds
There are problems with electronic publishing (Soapbox, THES, March 5). First is the problem of copyright, both regarding the e-book (who owns it - author or site provider?) and the extracts in it (...
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E-book binds
It may be a little early to pronounce the death of the monograph. New printing technologies already allow small runs without incurring high overheads. In both electronic and carbon-on-paper...
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They're the real thing
It was heartening to read that the new universities' achievements in promoting access will be reflected in increased funding ("Elite trumped in access stakes", THES, March 5). It was also good to...
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Fee radicals
The recommendation by David Roberts ("Fees hike would not deter undergraduates", THES, February 26) that a rise in tuition fees would not put students off applying for university is preposterous. Mr...
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Points of principality
John Naylon's view (Eyewitness, THES, February 19) that Andorra offers Gibraltar a promising precedent of "joint sovereignty" overlooks the fact that Andorra is an independent country that is a...
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Save our science
What is wrong with the way we do science? Susan Greenfield gave Tony Blair suggestions for reform The best type of science discovery is that which departs radically from what has gone before and...
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Nuts and bolt-ons
Olga Wojtas talks to a sociologist who is fighting Australia's study skills centre establishment. Growing numbers of British universities are setting up study skills centres to help students make the...