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  1. Too much information

    Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan

    #Alan Ryan
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  2. Should we laugh at student howlers?

    Is the Times Higher Education ‘exam howlers’ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the...

    #Alice Bell
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  3. When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed

    Instead of sermonising about the need for more contact hours, ministers should stop infantilising students and listen to what they actually want, argues Paul Ramsden

    #Features

  4. Neither here nor there

    An outsider's perspective can spark innovation, but many refugee academics struggle to rekindle careers. Matthew Reisz shares the setbacks and successes of scholars set on rejoining their peers

    #Features

  5. We can show that teacher training works

    I found the article by Craig Mahoney, chief executive of the Higher Education Academy, about the value of training for university teachers quite extraordinary ("Knowledge is not enough...", 14 July)....

    #Letters

  6. True cost of visa changes

    Terry Butland's warning about the damage being done to overseas recruitment by new visa rules comes as no surprise to anyone operating within the international education sector ("Middlesex braces for...

    #Letters

  7. Angels with dirty hands

    Thank you for publishing Roger Watson's article on why we need nurses to be educated to degree level in the UK ("We need the IV leaguers", 28 July).As Watson makes clear, there is absolutely no...

    #Letters

  8. Willetts, you were warned

    The University and College Union and student leaders have warned from the outset that tripling tuition fees would deter people, especially those from poorer backgrounds, from applying to university...

    #Letters

  9. The spite stuff

    Richard J. Evans is right that reviewers have an obligation to be honest ("Critical path: how did a book reviewer and an author end up in court?", 4 August).As a reviews editor for Archives, the...

    #Letters

  10. Zero intolerance

    Could we please remind ourselves to correct at every opportunity the developing habit of referring to the 20th century as the 1900s?Of course, the same problem affects other centuries. This evening...

    #Letters

  11. God in the pension plan

    Where is this surge of "post-secularist" commentary coming from ("Spirit levels", 28 July)? It is unlikely to be the British populace, so many of whom consider gods redundant and identify themselves...

    #Letters

  12. Insidious inflation

    Can someone tell me when British universities began the practice of shaving off 50 per cent of grades (usually, 75 per cent of second-year and 25 per cent of third-year grades) for final assessments?...

    #Letters

  13. Film review: Cowboys & Aliens

    In which High Noon meets high-concept sci-fi carnage - and shoots blanks, says Duncan Wu

    #Culture
    #Film

  15. Richard Pike, 1950-2011

    Whether it was decrying "Mickey Mouse" degrees or rubbishing the oil industry's estimates on remaining petroleum reserves, Richard Pike was not afraid to speak his mind as chief executive of the...

    #Obituary
    #People