Wide web of best practice
In your article "Deciphering the code" (19 August) you provided a (somewhat confusing) league table of the best-performing institutional websites as judged by a group of sixth-formers. While the...
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Shining a light on NGOs
Matthew Reisz ("Criticism of universities has provoked a sharp response", 26 August) mischaracterises NGO Monitor.As is clear from our publications and website, NGO Monitor is a highly credible...
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STEM needs more branches
I have been enjoying the articles about STEM in your magazine. When I first saw the acronym, I interpreted it spontaneously as referring to science, technology, English and mathematics, until I...
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Proxy strengths may vary
Phil Baty (World University Rankings column, 19 August) tells us that citations data are "widely accepted as a strong proxy for research quality" and they "will have a high weighting" in the Times...
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Fair winds ahead
The potential for up to 50,000 new jobs in the offshore wind energy sector is welcome news indeed, and it will of course require the necessary skills to fill this tremendous number of opportunities...
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It's discrimination, full stop
Does anyone else find the phrase "reverse discrimination" somewhat offensive and patronising ("A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions", 26 August)?...
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Science needs effective PR
Zoë Corbyn's article "Trial by error" (26 August) depressingly restates the same sterile arguments made too many times in the past 30 years. Researcher versus media disagreements will continue until...
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A few home truths
I have been visiting professor at the University of Queensland, ߣߣÊÓƵ, several times in the past few years and have taught in different universities in Europe and elsewhere. I simply do not...
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One rule for all applicants
The Sunday Times' claim, repeated in ߣߣÊÓƵ, that "a reporter posing as a Russian applicant was told by universities including ... Leicester ... that she could get a place with A-...
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Data, but no context
Some 40 years after the publication of E.P. Thompson's book Warwick University Limited, you report on a new survey in which the majority of respondents at UK universities agreed fairly strongly or...
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To every page, turn, turn, turn
Dale Salwak laments the decline of deep reading under the baleful influence of the online age, and rallies to the defence of the love of learning, the sequestered nooks and the sweet serenity of books
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Art on its own account
John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act
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We can work it out
As graduates struggle to find employment, universities are having to think more creatively about how to prepare them for the workplace, says Rebecca Attwood
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2 September 2010
Graduate take-off - Are universities doing enough to make students employable?
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Overseas first for Imperial
Imperial College London is to launch its first course overseas at a new medical school developed with a university in Singapore.The school, which is due to open in 2013, will award joint Imperial and...