What an extraordinary, scarcely believable world we live in when a "senior academic" feels the need to remain anonymous when blowing the whistle on vice-chancellors' increasingly bizarre behaviour...
I read "The madness of kings" on long-serving vice-chancellors becoming power crazed with great interest. Our v-c, Tim Wheeler, is one of the UK's longest-serving university leaders, but I do not...
Even after all this time, one still wonders whether ministers realise the risks their so-called "higher education reforms" are taking with our international reputation for quality."For sale:...
The debt crisis demands deep reforms by the Greek government. What it doesn't require is a ham-fisted insistence on public expenditure cuts that will stifle future prospects for recovery.I write as...
Your headline "Pension action plans threaten NUS-UCU alliance" (13 October) is a little more exciting than the story itself. Liam Burns, president of the National Union of Students, highlights the...
What a refreshing and encouraging article by Janet Beer and Avril Horner on collaborative research ("A winning pair", 6 October). Although I am from the other end of the disciplinary spectrum - an...
ߣߣÊÓƵ's coverage of the report on the plagiarism reference tariff was titled "Stock plagiarism penalties don't always fit the crime" (13 October). However, the facts do not...
Ann Mroz (Leader, 6 October) says that by using a per capita measure, Switzerland (seven universities in the top 200) and the Netherlands (12 universities) lead the 2011-12 THE World University...
At last! An angry - and how - tirade against the millionaire buffoons who lead this wretched, undemocratic government, safe and secure in the knowledge that their privileged backgrounds and private...
As a THE reader since its inception, may I congratulate you on its ruby anniversary ("Many happy returns", 13 October). One item sadly missing from your remembrance of things past is the publication'...
Will Brooker explores the unsettling juxtaposition of self and other in Lynne Ramsay's skilful adaptation
Joanna Lumley's honeyed charm wins over everyone she meets on her tour of Greece, says Gary Day
A leading pioneer in the emerging field of science, technology and innovation studies (STIS) has died.Stewart Russell was born on 6 August 1955 at Eastleigh in Hampshire and educated at Wimborne...
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University of SouthamptonForeign body trainingMedical students will be able to complete a major part of their training in continental Europe as the result of a partnership between a UK university and...