On the rocks
The grey whale on the last page of the āSuper size meā report (Features, November) is belly up. Is Times Higher Education trying to tell us something?Sean NeillAssociate fellowCentre for Education...
The grey whale on the last page of the āSuper size meā report (Features, November) is belly up. Is Times Higher Education trying to tell us something?Sean NeillAssociate fellowCentre for Education...
How refreshing to read in a serious journal a proper account of poltergeist and other paranormal phenomena (āSchools that have ghoulsā, Features, 30 October).The author, Richard Sugg, starts with the...
During the Second World War, the village of Simpson (now part of Milton Keynes) was home to a number of workers from nearby Bletchley Park. Local history research has identified that, for well over a...
We applaud the advice from Annette Cashmore for those seeking promotion based on teaching (āIf they like your lectures, donāt keep it to yourselfā, Careers Intelligence, 6 November).A recent study by...
Like Sarah Churchwell (āHumanities: why the study of human culture still mattersā, Opinion, 13 November), I am not immune to the appeal of a good read from within the literatureās considerable...
As a lecturer and higher education programme leader in a further education college, I agree with Kevin Orr when he says that HE in FE can āchange livesā (āHE in FE: truths and illusionsā, News, 20...
The governmentās proposed statutory duty on universities in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill will require universities to āhave due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into...


For all the public assurances that the merger between University College London and the Institute of Education, University of London was a coming-together of equals, some IoE resistance fighters have...

An OMG moment is predicted for whoever wins the election as politicians address lapses in oversight and funding challenges

Source: AlamySchoolgirl errors?One of our leading pro vice-chancellors, Dr Janet Balsam, has denounced the ānaive and immatureā portrait of higher education recently articulated by Toni Pearce,...

University leaders and lecturers fear for freedom of speech under proposed anti-extremism legislation

Hepi report predicts that the student vote could swing the advantage to Labour at the general election

About 13 per cent of academics who left their higher education institution between 2011-12 and 2012-13 joined the private sector

Controversial capabilities policy retained as one of three strands in research councilās new plan