I've been looking for a way to describe the mood of my department this term, which is in the throes of implementing a much-contested revision to our curriculum, arrived at after three long years of...
An internationally renowned leader in science education has died.David Malvern was born in Crosby, Merseyside on 20 October 1946 and won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School before reading...
An Oxford college has launched a £17 million fundraising campaign for a major expansion that will include the building of two new quadrangles and a bridge link across a city centre street. As part of...
Awards that recognise efforts to reform gender inequality in science are making a difference. Paul Jump reports
Your leader, "Time for a return to entry duty?" (4 November), rightly calls upon universities to play a part in shaping A-level qualifications. But let us not be tempted to join the clamour of voices...
I disagree with the somewhat dismissive approach to the views of teachers and subject associations taken in your feature, "Making the A level work a little harder" (4 November).The A level is part of...
The Browne Report looks likely to leave arts and humanities students with twice the level of fees and some academic departments facing closure ("The shape of things to come", 28 October).Given that "...
Universities need to be able to plan in order to deliver high-quality courses. But student choice is likely to be fickle, with income course by course hard to predict from year to year.How will the...
If a review chaired by a distinguished literary publisher and president of the British Academy had recommended that government funding for undergraduate teaching be entirely concentrated on the...
There is one point in the Policy Exchange report on private providers in higher education that must not go unchallenged ("Private firms keen to take Queen's shilling for student support", 4 November...
Jay Kennedy ends his piece, "My Dan Brown moment" (4 November), by decrying the impact of what he calls "outreach" on the humanities. According to him, such activities "are incompatible with the...
Congratulations to Jay Kennedy for attracting Hollywood's attention with his work on musical patterns in Plato. I hereby inform the studios that I have found in the Browne Review signs of madness,...
Brian Bloch suggests that "non-native speakers are generally unable to write an acceptable level of English for academic purposes" ("Trips and falls of the tongue", 21 October).Putting aside...
You quote a lecturer complaining because a mature student sent them notes saying how brilliant they were ("Diaries of doom, gloom and anger", 4 November). What planet are they are living on? The...
Academic freedom is deemed by the Hunt report to be one of the strengths of higher education in the Republic of Ireland ("Bad news travels slow", 4 November). Why, then, did the Irish academics who...