Still logged on at the cutting edge 3
In claiming that computer science is out of touch and should become more interdisciplinary, Neil McBride makes inaccurate generalisations. In fact, a significant proportion of research is in areas...
Search
-
-
Still logged on at the cutting edge 4
I do not share all of Neil McBride's views about computer science, but I welcome the discussion his article will precipitate. He is right to say that computing is now core to our society. It will...
-
Wrong about post-92s 1
Alan Sked clearly enjoys lecturing at the London School of Economics; he spends a good chunk of his review of my book University Students Behaving Badly (February 9) telling us what a delightful...
-
Wrong about post-92s 2
I've spent the majority of my adult life in Russell Group universities unaware of anyone, even in the darkest parts of "the tower", who was not committed to a higher education system that serves the...
-
A united future
We should remember that 95 per cent of lecturers' union Natfhe and 80 per cent of Association of University Teachers members voted in favour of forming the University and College Union. Members want...
-
Got a bigger sample?
Jim Foulds, chair of the Higher Education Safety Forum, takes The Times Higher to task for reporting a study of university stress based on a sample of "only" 1,000 respondents (Letters, February 9)....
-
It's not about the 'ist'
With regard to June Purvis's letter (February 9), if she and her friends had not intervened to attack my article on interpretations of suffragette history even before it had been published, readers...
-
Research is the key
Lee Harvey (Letters, February 9) is right to scorn williseemytutor.com. The site is absurd, crude and illiterate. But he makes a poor point in relation to postgraduates and their teaching....
-
Don't stop funding
I'm appalled that the British Academy is planning to halt funding to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq for its work with Iraqi scholars and the rebuilding of the country's heritage ("Middle...
-
Taboo in the review
In his choleric review of our book Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (February 9), Roy Harris has a right to disagree with our wide definition of taboo - but we do at least define...
-
Get set for wardrobe assessing exercise
Academics have suffered jokes about their fashion sense, or the lack of it, for a long time, but a TV makeover show is now taking the matter seriously, writes Anthea Lipsett. The BBC's What Not to...
-
'My work bridges the gap between science and clinical applications'
Peter Hall has been given a rare accolade by the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland Most people assume that pathology professor Peter Hall cuts up dead bodies. But Professor Hall, who...
-
On the move...
Tim Unwin , professor of geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been appointed programme director of the World Economic Forum's Partnerships for Education initiative. Brighton...
-
South secures research cash
North slates skewed system of biomedical funding allocation. Rebecca Attwood reports. Champions of England's northern universities this week blasted health chiefs for pouring biomedical research...
-
Course to help funeral directors polish graveside manner
Bath University could soon be offering a foundation degree for funeral directors, writes Rebecca Attwood. The university, which is home to the UK's only centre devoted to the study and research of...