Diary
Southampton Bully BoyMajor Oscar Hadley is flown to the front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled "Bully Boy" unit of the British Army. Yet when young squaddie Eddie...
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The Pick - The Damnation of Faust
The Damnation of FaustEnglish National Opera, London, until 7 JuneIn 2006-07, the site-specific theatre company Punchdrunk put on a thrilling adaptation of Goethe's Faust in a disused London...
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Hubble bubble
In a recently issued five-star, top-priority email, our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, has addressed what she describes as the "urgent issue of hubs".She points out that...
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Leader: Born again in West London
As it rebrands and reshapes, Thames Valley, long a byword for failure, might just be on course to outwit more august names
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Research intelligence - Mighty oaks and little acorns
Curtailing research freedom cuts the odds of producing great work, leading scientist argues. Paul Jump reports
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Off Piste: Truths, lies and Gallic shrugs
Martin Cohen, a long-term resident of Normandy, presents a gourmet repast of his 11 favourite myths about the French, from barefaced fibs to insouciant self-deception and charming vérité
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The week in higher education
Credit: Nick Newman•"At my signal, unleash hell" - not David Willetts launching the new fees system, but the most famous line from a Hollywood actor who apparently yearns to work in UK higher...
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From where I sit - How to ride the blue tide
If you look at a map showing the results of last week's Canadian federal election, you will see a tiny dot of red on the north shore of Lake Ontario, surrounded by a sea of unrelieved Tory blue. Yes...
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Appointments
Staffordshire UniversityRosy CrehanA clarinettist and fashion expert has been appointed executive pro vice-chancellor at Staffordshire University. Rosy Crehan, formerly dean of the Faculty of Arts at...
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Insane in the membrane
Felipe Fernández-Armesto can’t wait to flee the madness infecting the UK
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Back from the brink
A name change - along with the inauguration of a new chancellor this week - is intended to mark the start of a new era for the former Thames Valley University. Rebecca Attwood delves into the...
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Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (1 of 3)
Once again the crude metric of a PhD "completion rate" is used to assess quality ("Poor English a key diagnosis for failure to make PhD grade", 5 May).Blinkered uniformity is often sought for...
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Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (2 of 3)
Recruiting international students with a substandard quality of written English is a dilemma that is commonly faced by tutors working in UK higher education.But this crisis is most pronounced in the...
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Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (3 of 3)
The problem of poor PhD completion rates may not be language proficiency alone. Undergraduate degrees in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries do not adequately prepare students to think critically...
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Whither London Met? (1 of 2)
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, neatly encapsulates what is wrong with so much of the student-as-consumer model when it is applied to the function of a...