Lodging a complaint
For long enough, colleagues have complained of the "development of managerialism" in higher education. Now, it would appear, financial crises in the sector have prompted inspired innovative solutions...
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No real case for HGE
So Robert Winston plans to start genetically engineering human beings ("Fertile with ideas for the infertile", THES, May 14), despite previous claims that such possibilities are so far into the...
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Treasury must stump up for Bett
Your editorial is entirely right to say that it is essential to find ways of implementing Bett's "modest and eminently justifiable recommendations" in respect of university pay (Opinion, THES, June...
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Treasury must stump up for Bett
Has the Bett report told us anything we did not already know? That most academics are underpaid, that universities do not have the money to make up the difference and that the government will not...
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Curious anthropology
As parents of a 15-week-old boy, we found Gabriele vom Bruck's assertion that academic women who cannot negotiate equal terms of domestic labour with their partners should "stop complaining" and...
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The wage of reason
Stephen Machin and Andrew Oswald ("Economic rent", THES, June 25) argue that academic economists need to be paid "far, far more". The main reason they give is that young economists are now going into...
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Moscow
A Chinese chemistry student studying in Moscow's Mendeleyev University was found dead after being stripped naked, covered in red pepper, bound, gagged and wrapped in blankets. Moscow police say the "...
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Beijing
The Chinese ministry of education plans to cut the number of higher education institutions by 10 per cent through mergers by 2003. If everything goes according to plan there will be about 1,800...
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Hot to reward prize pedagogues
WHAT: New systems are needed to find exceptional teachers and reward them. By Hazel Fullerton WHY: High-level research attracts extra funds while the incentive to improve teaching is less obvious....
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Terms of reference
Is there life after Bett? The Bett committee faced a mammoth task in trying to untangle and make sense of higher education's multi-layered and convoluted pay and conditions structures, writes Alan...
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Germany told to get friendly
Hamburg German universities must be more welcoming to foreign students, says a poll by the national student organisation Deutsche Studentenwerk (DSW) and the federal education ministry. Foreign...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Martin Trow warned that British universities should be wary of positive discrimination to correct racial imbalance I agree that positive action is not the way forward if we...
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Striking behaviour
The Association of University Teachers' campaign of "industrial action" is inappropriate. It also appears to be ineffectual. Does anyone believe the strike day to have been a great success? At...
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Is there life after Bett?
The Bett committee report on pay and conditions has been published. Harriet Swain reports its recommendations It was never going to be easy to tackle staff pay and conditions in a diverse sector that...
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Techno fears
The hand-wringing about genetically modified foods technology does not help the debate (Letters, THES, June 11). Vitamin A-containing rice is feasible and meets a need. But is this technology being...