Stupid Cupid! Karen Gold searches for the e-spot From: Gold, Karen To: Ben-Ze'ev, Aaron - psychologist, philosopher and author of Love Online: Emotions on the Internet Subject: Does cybersex count as...
While vice-chancellors understandably seek the best for their institutions, it is difficult to see the rationale behind special financial treatment for undergraduate education at G5 universities ("...
If the G5 universities recruit European Union and foreign students only at the expense of UK applicants, then perhaps the Higher Education Funding Council for England should at least reduce pro rata...
The accusations of the UK Independence Party about the UK's Jean Monnet Centres ("Shut Euro 'propaganda outlets', critics demand", February 6) are an insult to the staff's integrity. The problem...
A crippling affliction is spreading among the academic profession, to judge by photos in The Times Higher . It is the Fingers Fixed to Famous Faces (FFFF) phenomenon. On January 30, it was Rita Levi-...
Reader sells Machiavelli book given away by The Times Higher for £10 on eBay ("Princely sum paid for THES freebie", February 6) - is this a sign of the paucity of academic salaries? Discuss. Hugh...
The difference between "academic" and "vocational" degrees would be clear enough if the adjective "vocational" were replaced by, say, "experiential" (Leader, January 16; Letters, January 23; 30)....
I have a question for the anonymous fellow who said Susan Greenfield's possible appointment to the Royal Society was "an insult to the world-class scientists who are still on the waiting list" ("...
Perhaps those prejudiced obscurantists who are seeking to block Susan Greenfield's election as a fellow should be dissuaded from their threatened resignations. Instead their titles should be changed...
Mo Dodson's tirade against Paul Ormerod's review of Michael Albert's Parecon (Letters, January 30; Books, January 23) can't go unchallenged. Ormerod criticises Albert for his failure to provide...
The National Secular Society's criticism of Aberdeen University for establishing a Centre for the Study of Spirituality, Health and Disability ("Row over 'pseudo science'", February 6) seems based on...
"Cuts to research into education must be halted," says the British Educational Research Association (February 6). I disagree. Research into education produces calamitously stupid ideas that are put...
Unlike Gary Day (January 30), engineering lecturers don't have to mark piles of essays. But to judge from a competition on "What makes a good engineering lecturer?", engineers not only write well,...
While not questioning the veracity of Leeds University's findings about the damage that paid work can inflict on academic achievement ("High-fliers are more fun", February 6), I would ask a different...
University staff are not as divided over the national pay framework as you suggest ("TUC policies pay scrum", February 6). Unison, Amicus and the Association of University Teachers at University...