Two recent events on either side of the Atlantic have done little to iterate academe's commitment to free speech. Earlier this month, the University of California withdrew an invitation to former...
John Denham is a highly intelligent and very decent man. He was one of the few ministers to seemingly throw away a ministerial career at the time of the ill-judged attack on Iraq. Nonetheless, his...
Your account of University UK's report on the future of the sector's pension arrangements ("Final-salary pension in peril", October 19) contains some worrying features. Much of UUK's report seems to...
Many of my colleagues are passionate about the need to address inequality of access to higher education. At first sight, Bill Rammell ("Why first-time students come first", October 12) makes a...
Joanna Bourke ("Men, too, must work to take back the night") seems to be unfamiliar with the words "alleged" and "not guilty". I look on in dismay at the sight of what seems to be an otherwise...
There is a simpler solution than the Burgess report to the problems of a degree classification that is "not fit for purpose", and the associated issue of grade inflation: bring back sit-down closed...
Dave Delphy, new chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, cites Michael Faraday in connection with the value of fundamental research ("Applying the great lesson of...
The recent visit of Lords Denham and Adonis to University College London in an attempt to bolster support for the proposed Camden Academy should serve as a warning to all working in higher education...
Recently the Government, in agreement with the unions, introduced new pension rules but retained final-salary schemes. The Times Higher now reports that the Universities and Colleges Employers...
There are some topics on which writers ought to take particular care not to risk appearing prejudiced. It was a pity therefore that Joanna Bourke's article contained the sentence: "Men are getting...
The grading of student work is inherently and inevitably rough. In most circumstances it is more a matter of judgment than of measurement. Marks are less precise than the algorithms used for honours...
James Watson has decided views on Rosalind Franklin, Larry Summers, cancer, networking and 'the archaic crap' that is religion. He shared a few of them with Matthew Reisz in the Nobel laureate's only...
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer their different perspectives on freshers' week. THE FATHER The relative peace of summer finally broke with a cloudburst of meetings...
From banking to the wine industry to medicine, professional expertise and intuition are giving way to the more reliable outcomes of mass data analysis. The next target sector? Quite possibly yours....
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