The vilification of Les Ebdon in some sections of the press, in opposition to his appointment as director of Offa, is ill-informed, completely unjustified and highly damaging to the causes of...
John Gill, in his leader ("Something has got to give", 16 February), raises the point that English students who will be paying tuition fees of £9,000 a year from September will expect the teaching...
The letters by Robin Parker and by Sally Hunt ("Fear of failure?", 16 February) on the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland, chaired by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, point to the need for a...
In response to the article "Do not throw that IB pearl away, richer than the impoverished A level" (9 February), I say, look to the extended project, vice-chancellors, not the IB: there you will find...
While I wholeheartedly agree with Tony Chafer's views on the decline of language degrees ("Mind our languages", 16 February), he has missed one relevant fact: students who go abroad on the Erasmus...
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, reports a "tsunami of late applications" as the reason why London Met is facing a fine of up to £6 million from the Higher...
"Policemen look so young these days"; thus said my ancient mother. Now it is editors ("Times Higher Education announces new editor", 16 February). Surely you have not stooped to Photoshopping, like...
Will Brooker is seduced by a romcom with a starry cast of actors of a certain age who give powerful, sexy performances
Adela Bradley, a glamorous, more saucy version of Miss Marple, is brought vividly to life, says Gary Day
For more than 40 years, Don Varley was a key member of the academic and student community at the University of Nottingham, as a senior lecturer, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences,...
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Queen Mary, University of LondonRising in the EastA £36 million graduate centre is to be built after being given the go-ahead by planners. Set to open in 2015, the centre at Queen Mary, University of...
Top-up credits - Open courseware and the challenge to traditional campus education
Tom Palaima lauds a reflection on the millennia-old struggle to express original ideas through language
The quality of US physics has been surpassed by that of both Canada and the UK over the past decade, new analysis commissioned by the Institute of Physics suggests.