Joint bid is best option
Further to your report concerning Natfhe's attempts to secure agreement with the Association of University Teachers around a joint pay claim for academic staff (THES, December 1) the facts are as...
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Logic of the rhetoric
Roger Brown questions the link between research and teaching. Is research a necessary, integral, part of higher education? If it is, what policies should we pursue to promote its beneficial...
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Green grass of home
In the midst of depression following yet more cuts to higher education funding, perhaps there is one bright note. Further editions of Don's Diary are more likely to start: "Day 1: Doncaster. . ."...
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Bengu to intervene in Witwatersrand leaks row
Sibusiso Bengu, South African education minister, is to intervene in a row at the University of the Wi****ersrand in which the deputy vice chancellor, William Makgoba, has been suspended from his...
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Level headed start
As a former polytechnic person, I have no objection to the proposal that a sum of Pounds 4 million should "be explicitly linked to high achievement". I do however have one proviso, that payment...
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Slippery as she goes, milord
Max Beloff argues approvingly of Vernon Bogdanor's view that the monarch acts as a "constitutional guardian" (Thes, December 1). The problem with this idea is that the British constitution, being...
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For tip-top condition take top up
Mr Clarke is to be congratulated on his clarity. For the new Budget settlement makes it clear that British universities can no longer hope that they will be able to offer decent teaching in decent...
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Unesco price is a bargain offer
This week ceremonies have taken place to mark the 50th anniversary of the adoption of Unesco's constitution in London. Many ambassadors, high commissioners, politicians of all parties and a large...
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No more local heroes?
I was surprised that Anthea Millet in her explanation of the TTA's proposals for reform (THES, December 1) lists only four charges brought against the consultative document about the future of...
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No more local heroes?
I was interested to see Anthea Millett's article, which was written before the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers had prepared its response to the publication of the Coopers and...
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Private cash will restore autonomy
The case for a private sector loans scheme is that it will promote the autonomy of the universities and reduce the extent of their financial dependence on the state. The Government inadvertently laid...
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No strings research
Whatever the reasons for top scientists working on BSE at the Institute of Animal Health apparently coming under threat, the wider public must be wondering how essential research on a possibly life-...
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Business bids low for skills
It is difficult to imagine there ever being an awareness-raising AIDs-style "training" day, let alone a whole week. But, in retrospect, that is what we have just had - if unofficially and without...
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Part of the equation
Will the Budget revive demands to rethink higher education funding? Ann Hanson, David Smith and Ian Pyper want a model based on part-time students' needs. Earlier in the year it looked as though The...
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Don's Diary
Monday. To Riga, Latvia. We're off for a seminar with university lecturers who might add British studies to their sophisticated programme of advanced English language teaching work. I have spent...