Library powers town grid
Imagine a public library which is also one of the most advanced solar power generators in Europe: a building that can satisfy its own energy requirements with a totally clean form of electricity....
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Legal heads unite over Euro-law compendium
The European University Institute in Fiesole, near Florence, has condensed 45 years of European law into one volume, Paul Bompard writes. It presents in the clearest form possible all legislation...
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The biggest shift since Henry VIII?
The establishment of the Greenwich Observatory by Charles II in 1675 was the state's first venture into funding science. It says something for the wholesale disposal of family silver on which the...
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Too tired to turn new ideas to profit
Dear Ron, please do something, particularly about the money. This might be the best way to sum up the submissions sent in to the Dearing review of higher education by today's deadline. The...
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A training agency fit for the scrap heap
TEACHER Training Agency chief executive Anthea Millett's recent lecture and some of her claims for agency achievements warrant a response. One claim is that linking funding to quality has given...
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Loamshire quality questioned by degrees
It was always probable that the uncontrolled expansion of higher education would call into question the assumption that a degree of a similar class in one university would be the equivalent of the...
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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 ("Home 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...