Funding is the only issue that matters
The Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education is nearing the end of its work. As the committee struggles to agree its final report it is as well to remember why it was set up. In February...
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Curbs needed on rule of fear
Ignoring financial realities can have disastrous consequences for institutions. Gerald Vinten suggests a system of checks and balances for those at the top. Extreme situations are now taking on a...
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Service comes careering bang up-to-date
Employability and career success are what everybody expects from higher education. Tony Watts outlines the role university careers services have to play. The Dearing report seems likely to put...
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Bad for business
Watching the Oxford University management school sideshow (THES, June 6) 1 feel moved to throw a cushion from the cheap seats at Brookes. Brookes business school got a research rating of one, because...
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Greenwich move stalls
GREENWICH University may cancel its planned move into the Royal Naval College buildings following an apparent shift in the tenancy offer. The university says it will pull out of the Greenwich college...
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Leicester: we have lift-off
Leicester University's ambitious plans for a National Space Science Centre had lift-off this week with a Pounds 23-million Millennium Commission grant. The organisers of the Pounds 46-million project...
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Mein infamy
Max Clifford (THES, June 13) actually said that Adolf Hitler was the most infamous person not the most famous! Mark Griffiths Nottingham Trent University Adam Joinson University of Glamorgan
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Static skill
I have seen Kathy Chater's explanation of "transferable skills" (THES, June 13). Could she please also explain what an untransferable skill is? Alan Slomson School of mathematics University of Leeds
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OU taps in to windfall
The article "Universities slow to tell students of tax windfall" (THES, June 6) failed to mention that the Open University has been offering vocational training relief on a number of its courses...
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A challenge to the Hera antagonists
Temperate criticism is not usually the hallmark of Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the college lecturers' union. When Jill Jones and Alan Carr (THES letters, June 13) argue that "...
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The truth is out there
I was slightly surprised to read that Sandy Wolfson's research suggested that many Trekkies show addict-like symptoms, as according to the summary of her research which she showed me last year (and...
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Operational research
At a time when the qualitative standing and role of higher education are under close scrutiny, it is perhaps surprising and certainly unfortunate that a senior commentator (professor and dean of...
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Rorty the reactionary
I was delighted to read Sean Sayers's article on Richard Rorty (THES, June 6). On the one hand, I am the first to support academic freedom, on the other I am also the first to argue that that freedom...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday Anglia Television records news item about the court case I am seeking to bring against the university with respect to its promotion procedures. There are a lot of promotion candidates in...
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Battle over, anxiety takes hold
From Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals, Martin Anderson's Impostors in the Temple, to Lynne Cheney's Telling the...