Can't this pay offer be improved?
The pay dispute in higher education may look like a wrangle between a determined beggar and a passer-by with no money. But in this case the chosen victim cannot just walk away. Instead, autumn is...
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A lack of maturity
Despite the AUT action (above), this year has seen few "clearing chaos" tales. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has become adept at coping with tens of thousands of applicants who...
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Star scholars shine in all skies
So compelling was the picture painted by Professor Blackburn et al about opportunities in North America for har-assed United Kingdom academics (THES, July 30) that I thought some ex-ex-pat should...
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Pay rise put in motion
As The THES rightly notes (August 20), Natfhe is calling for a major inquiry into further education pay and conditions at this year's Trades Union Congress conference. However, I am sure that THES...
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Meningitis fear
While I understand why students are concerned about meningitis and want all the protection available, I do not think it is in anyone's interests to believe they are protected when they may not be....
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Case of PHD blues
According to BBC Radio 4's Today programme (August 1 9), PHD ý or Post Holiday Depression ý is at long last a recognised psychiatric condition. As I have an official-looking piece...
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Vision misinterpreted
The prediction by Eric Atwell in The Language Machine is unduly alarmist (THES, July 23). The technology required for a machine to translate the spoken word (ie interpret) involves a combination of...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in the TES: Natalie Fenton argued that academics were right to take industrial action over this year's pay claim: Gerald Vinten Deputy dean and professor of management Southampton Business...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in the TES: Reg Jordan argued that medical students should study unorthodox medicine: Christopher C. French, Head of department, Department of psychology Goldsmiths College, London To...
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Net censors sought
The Australian Broadcasting Authority is advertising for staff to help it implement a controversial new federal censorship law. The authority has been given the job of filtering out pornographic...
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Colleges predict AS level apathy
Ministers' planned revolution in sixth-form study next year could be ruined by university conservatism and apathy, college and school leaders have warned. Funding shortfalls could also undermine the...
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Sofia
More than 14,000 hopeful students applied for 4,200 places at Sofia University in the Bulgarian capital. At the University of National and World Economy about 19,000 applicants were chasing 3,300...
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The THES diary
Bus ride to millions. The University of Abertay Dundee has launched a gloomy student recruitment campaign with the slogan "One of Abertay's graduates now works on the buses". Not quite so gloomy when...
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Cambridge Massachusetts
Harvard University has admitted that it misclassified many employees as temporary instead of full-time, cheating them of benefits and salary raises. The university said it will put things right,...
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Software slip adds to loan crisis
A botched database set up by the Student Loans Company will leave thousands of students strapped for cash as they start their higher education courses. The database supplied to local authorities by...