Pressing a bitter battle of words
The failings of university presses are notorious among academics - but authors have their own shortcomings. Brian Brivati outlines a charter for a better working relationship between both sides....
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To choose to go local
In a trailer for a forthcoming special issue of Demos, Geoff Mulgan ("糖心Vlog View", THES, November 1) signals the choice before universities to go global or local. He suggests that the challenge is not...
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Guildhall sackings
As the five sacked academics from London Guildhall University referred to in The THES (November 8), we wish to focus on the contradiction of sacking teachers when more students are entering higher...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
The "Fat cat factor" (Leader, THES, November 8) gave good coverage of the case for a fair pay settlement in higher education. The case was made even more sharply in the appointments pages of the same...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
Your editorial highlighted the trend for rewards in both the private and public sector to become concentrated in the hands of a small number of individuals, while others enjoy no perks or even paid...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
I sincerely hope that the desire to limit the research function of most universities will not be taken on board by the Dearing committee. I strongly believe that this would make the idea of an...
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No mission, no prize
A few months ago the University of Central England and The THES announced a competition to submit a mission statement that would encapsulate the aims and objectives of higher education in the next...
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A better work ethic
The front-page report, "Bosses to call the shots" (THES, October 18) drives more nails in the coffin of academic and intellectual independence from the ideology of the free market. Populist measures...
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Trade-offs on road to Dearing success
In most discussions of the Dearing higher education review, attention has legitimately focused on what the French would call the organisational and financial imperatives. That is not to dismiss them...
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Keep the alumni fire burning
A year ago while meeting with two senior officials of a well-established Danish university, I had occasion to discuss fundraising activities directed at corporations and individuals by universities...
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Labour's X file
Labour is so focused on winning the next election that it has pruned its policy pledges to avoid alienating potential voters. But the radically minded should not despair. Ben Pimlott dares to suggest...
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A laureate accused
A 72-year-old Nobel laureate has been accused of sexually molesting a minor, one of 54 boys he looked after from Papua New Guinea. A journal he kept during his time in the tropics might lend some...
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The great and not so good
Suman Gupta argues that a writer's racism does affect his or her literary status. The debate that followed the publication of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, an attack on Eliot's anti-...
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Starvation on a planet of plenty
As the World Food Summit opens in Rome, Laura Kelly shows how hunger is an increasing menace for many just as global food production is stagnating, and Vittoria D'Alessio asks food experts what is...
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The eco-literate mystic
Fritjof Capra set out to find 'the way' 40 years ago and ended up fusing science and spirituality and selling an awful lot of books. Graham Lawton reports. Fritjof Capra, bestselling author,...