Editors: Suzanne Fraser and David MooreEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 260Price: £32.99ISBN: 9780521156059As the debate about drug use and addiction rages on in the media,...
External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive. Chris Hackley calls for a more constructive, European-style approach - and for judgement moderated...
Roger Walters is correct in stating that The Open University's council has initiated a full consultation exercise on the proposal to cease direct employment of its staff based in continental Europe...
I write regarding your news article "Elite institutions predicted to fall short on research student qualifications" (17 May), which draws on data from the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
Under the headline "Three times the cost but same timetable" (News, 17 May), Times Higher Education analyses the recent Higher Education Policy Institute report The Academic Experience of Students at...
I recently spent the best part of a Sunday afternoon trying to help my daughter complete the student loan application for entry in September.The Student Loans Company website prompts students to use...
I cannot tell from Maleiha Malik's review of Martha Nussbaum's The New Religious Intolerance to what extent this may be true of the book, but the critique is deeply flawed ("Signposts to a brave new...
It is by no means only outside the academy that "Free-range thinkers" (3 May) plough their non-conventional furrows; and it is arguably essential for Foucauldian "fearless speech" to survive and...
So, according to the Universities Human Resources group, autonomy and academic freedom are past it ("Freedom a 'former value' in admin-led sector", News, 17 May). In the same issue, Tom Palaima...
I congratulate the academic who managed to wring £50 from the BBC for her work ("Auntie exploitation", Letters, 10 May). I recently volunteered to participate in a public event for BBC Learning, tied...
Recently I attended a talk by Stefan Collini about What Are Universities For?, his new book. I expected the venue (a bookshop in central London) to be packed with students, lecturers, perhaps even...
Your remark about the greater influence of the University of Oxford compared with the University of Cambridge appears tongue in cheek, but it might be taken more seriously (The week in higher...
I note that the issue of research impact is again of concern (eg, "Dismissal threat for metrics letter", 17 May). In particular, it seems there is an issue about communicating research insights...
An archaeologist who played a central role in excavating King Croesus' city of Sardis has died.Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr - commonly known as "Greenie" - was born on 3 June 1937 in the US city...
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