Terence Kealey deserves thanks for explicating a key point on which ministers prefer to maintain silence: namely, that the argument for privatising the UK's universities rests empirically on the...
Roger Brown (Letters, 18 October) confesses he is fearful lest our most selective universities "detach themselves from direct state funding for teaching". But he does not tell us why.All UK...
Sharing knowledge requires a precise language for each domain of evidence. The challenge is to reach balanced judgements across these domains in a world of uncertainties. For "evidence-informed"...
The report by Ian Diamond on recommendations from the British Academy High Level Strategy Group on Quantitative Skills is surely to be welcomed ("Cash for quantitative and qualitative change", 18...
I am in broad agreement with Nigel Tubbs' argument that we need liberal arts programmes in the academy ("The importance of being useless", 11 October), but I wonder whether calling them "useless" is...
At the age of 24, Richard Evans probably did not know much about the running of a university, but one would have thought that the passage of time would have given him the hindsight to realise that...
I read with particular interest your article "Experiential enterprise: can-do students need hands-on teaching" (4 October) about the need for students to experience rather than just to learn about...
Poppleton University's appointment of Henrik Ibsen (The Poppletonian, 11 October) reminded me of another unlikely university appearance from the early 1970s. On the request of a student, a public-...
Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as the UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.
UK’s future prosperity ‘relies on boosting the quality of master’s and PhD research’. Paul Jump reports
The system of examination for PhDs in the UK is a “scandal”, a conference on postgraduate issues heard last week.
Professor says he was suspended by Sheffield for mentioning a touchy subject. Paul Jump writes
Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes
The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues
As a long career closes, Steven Schwartz is eager to discover what lies ahead