Carl Lygo, principal of BPP University College, makes a serious category error in equating for-profit universities (under investigation in the US but promoted by the UK government as a solution to a...
David Willetts disagrees with Stefan Collini that the government lacks an understanding of the public value of the university ("A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack", 1...
David Willetts' recent trip to the Antarctic Peninsula deserves elaboration ("Journey into the unknown", 1 March). While the minister might have enjoyed glancing at an emperor penguin or two, his...
In response to Timothy Gowers ("Occupy publishing", 16 February) (http://thecostofknowledge.com), Elsevier's David Clark argues that "there is little merit in throwing away a system that works" ("If...
I refer to Martin McQuillan's claim that the University of Ulster shares the view that "universities could not be expected to do anything about access because it was all the fault of failing state...
Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir is certainly entitled to dismiss the theological bent of my book Humanity 2.0 (Books, 1 March), even if her preferred alternative remains mysterious. However, she is not...
Week after week, THE employs an Anglo- and London-centric perspective of the landscape it surveys. Witness the Diary, where it is routine to find that 50-60 per cent of the cultural activity covered...
Gary Day is fascinated by explanations of the Earth's path through the heavens and the Sun's hold over us
A world authority on interfaith relations, John Hick engaged in lively discussions on philosophy and theology with peers and students until he was 90 years old.Professor Hick grew up in Scarborough....
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University of RoehamptonBlessed are the newsmakersJournalism students honed their interview skills by grilling Occupy London protesters just hours after they had been evicted from outside St Paul's...
Restricted diet - How the National Student Survey sacrifices brain food for ‘satisfaction’
Anglia Ruskin University and London Metropolitan University are the biggest winners in the allocation of 20,000 “margin” student places for next year, but 155 further education colleges have grabbed...
The head of the London College of Communication has resigned after several days of negotiations with senior managers over her future.
Independent candidates have triumphed in the University and College Union elections by snapping up almost three-quarters of the contested places on its national executive committee.