Apology call to Guildhall
Guildhall has yet to utter a word of regret on the victimisation by managers of a black senior law lecturer (THES, June 19). The shocking thing in this is that an academic institution is involved and...
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Latin lovers, unite
Nick Tate (THES, May 19) is right to point to the deplorable level of Latin literacy in our schools. Students at German universities who do not possess basic Latin skills, but who are studying core...
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Student loans fall-out
In "Opinion" (THES, June 2) you claim that it is the hard left celebrating after Derby. As an independent sabbatical officer not affiliated to a party, faction, or fan club I reject that claim....
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English aid to develop Cambodia
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (THES, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
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Crushes or crushed
Jennie Bristow presented a picture of students deliberately and ritualistically setting out to enter into casual sexual relationships with their lecturers in universities and colleges. She questioned...
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Crushes or crushed
It is a sign of the times that it should be left to a student, Jennie Bristow (THES, June 2), to launch a welcome and effective attack on the patronising moves afoot to police personal relations...
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Irish baulk at expansion
University teachers in Ireland have accused the government of incoherence in its strategy to deal with growing numbers of full-time students. The Irish Federation of University Teachers is...
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Woman with a human rights mission
Karina Maskalenko is a Russian human rights lawyer with a European mission. She says: "My client has been convicted of a murder he didn't do. But that is not the issue here. The European Court doesn'...
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No cash for five star is research's loss
It was ironic and serendipitous that my article on the Higher Education Funding Council for England's research funding formula (THES, June 9) appeared in the same issue as the report that departments...
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Student loans fall-out
Why is it not possible for those who have attempted to scupper the NUS review of student financial support to recognise that real students are in favour of MICL. I am not a member of the Labour Party...
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Student loans fall-out
Contrary to the impression given by your report of the National Union of Students' extraordinary conference in Derby on education funding (THES, June 2), the decision it took to campaign for free...
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Elitism on the wrong track
There is something rotten about Oxbridge. These universities get more public money per student than any others; they get highly qualified students; they can afford to offer staff more comfortable...
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Postgraduates strike back
Postgraduates are becoming more demanding. They are fed up with poor supervision; they are waking up to the fact that they have intellectual property rights; they are becoming more ingenious about...
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Agenda benders
Royal Commissions have been as rare as England Test cricket victories in recent years. They did not fit with 1980s anti-consensus politics. Certainly education did not rate one. It fell therefore to...
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Liberal sprinkling of wastewatchers
All the major political parties are reviewing their higher education policies. Like those working in and served by the higher education sector, we will all have to come to terms with the difficulties...