Recipe for disaster
Post-Copenhagen, it's clear that logic alone won't save us, writes Kevin Fong
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Research Intelligence - Pragmatic arts
The AHRC's new head is keen to highlight the relevance of research to politicians and public alike. Zoe Corbyn writes
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Get used to life on the edge
As we bid farewell to the old unit of resource and usher in a new reduced one, we anticipate a year of fear, uncertainty and pain
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From where I sit - A real shake-up is still needed
This autumn, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China removed Zhou Ji from the post of Education Minister after a term of six years and shifted him to the position of deputy...
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Frances Stracey, 1963-2009
A researcher who pioneered new thinking on activism in art and the boundaries between art and science has died.
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Rankings must reflect teaching's importance
I wholeheartedly applaud your efforts to refocus the methodology for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ("Redrawing ranking rules for clarity, reliability and sense", 10 December)....
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Differential impact 1
The latest Times Higher Education devoted an editorial and two articles to concerns about the proposal to include "impact" as a factor in assessing the quality of research and scholarship under the...
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Hoary argument
Alan Ryan has got it completely wrong ("Offing the cap", 17/24 December). The idea of tuition fees was originally sold to us as a way of permitting 50 per cent of all pupils leaving secondary school...
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Teaching hypocrisy
Is it very surprising that a study states that research-driven universities are just paying lip service to the recognition of good teaching ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December)? For...
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Religious tensions
Your article "Something rotten? Row over Wales' validation of 'fundamentalist' BAs" (10 December) raises some interesting questions about the Danish university system, theological training and not...
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Making a rehash of it
Sally Feldman may regret the passing of local newspapers, but if people wanted to read about "frying eggs on pavements, confronting noisy neighbours and tackling trespassing tree-huggers", local...
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Same old tune
With all due respect to Jeremy Dibble ("Alternative sheep music", 17/24 December), it is hardly news that While Shepherds Watched their Flocks has been - and sometimes still is - sung to the tune of...
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Apology redux
All I have to say to Robert Segal ("All apologies", 17/24 December) is that I'm sorry you feel that way.Stephen Kukureka, Worcester.
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Differential impact 2
While very much in favour of the resistance to the impact agenda as any kind of rational measure of research, am I the only one who finds the term βcuriosity-drivenβ research naive, self-defeating...