Unchain yourselves
It is sad that it takes two officially retired but active academics, Ian McNair and Jennifer Bone, to say in public what is known to all in academia - higher education is "selling its soul" ("...
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No scalps were taken
Your otherwise accurate and generous account of the collaboration between Harvard and Manchester universities (and of my role therein) was seriously flawed by a breezy introduction written to grab...
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Temporal concerns
The caption under the picture of St Augustine printed with Sir Patrick Moore's review of Paul Davies's The Goldilocks Enigma (Books, November 2) states the opposite of Augustine's thought, and indeed...
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An old mistake at OU
The Open University seem to be under a serious misapprehension over the new age discrimination regulations ("OU staff criticise 'unfair' age rules", November 9). Times Higher readers should be clear...
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Thinking out of the box 1
Does John Kimberley (Letters, November 2) mean what I think he means by "andragogy"? Is he suggesting that women don't qualify for this variety of adult education? Jenny Woodhouse Cambridge
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Thinking out of the box 2
Birmingham University has phased out history due to lack of demand, but golf remains as a suitable subject for study. Surely it is time for the managers to grasp the nettle, knock down the university...
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Marked improvement
It needs no bravery to reform the 2:1 or clarify the expanding number of first-class degrees ("New class proposed to end 2:1 bonanza", November 9). In admissions to doctoral studies, "a good 2:1"...
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Bound to approve
Who could ever have imagined just how much difference two little pieces of metal would make to the usability of The Times Higher . David Watkins Postgraduate Research Centre Southampton Business...
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Is the dog's bowl half empty or half full?
Animals can exhibit pessimistic and optimistic traits. Michael North asks a psychologist exploring the consciousness of emotion what light this casts on the human condition. The word "murderer"...
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Fossils forecast a global scorcher
Petrified leaves paint a scary picture of how quickly and severely our climate can change, says David Beerling The past seizes upon us with its shadowy hand and holds us to listen to its tale," wrote...
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Required reading for 1 billion students
China could be gold mine for Western publishers of learning materials, but it's not easy to enter, say Harriet Swain and Mandy Garner One day in September, 120,000 Chinese children aged between seven...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: lectures The father The fresh start-of-term smell of floor polish in the lecture...
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I'm a postdoc - get me out
Want to tread the academic path after a PhD? Are you sure , asks Eleanor Lingham A week before I started my postdoc, I met an old friend whom I hadn't seen since my undergraduate days. He had just...
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Today's news
Protests grow over Reading physics closure More than 1,600 academics from 20 countries have signed a petition calling on the University of Reading to abandon controversial plans to close its...
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Latest research news
Educational toys 'are no better than trip to park' Aspirational parents who want to "hothouse" their children's intelligence are wasting thousands of pounds on educational toys for three and four-...