From down here in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala in south India, the government's higher education reform proposals look a bit different than in glitzy New Delhi. Kerala, ruled now by mild...
University of Tehran scholar condemns quantity over quality approach. Hannah Fearn reports
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Singapore Statement seeks global cooperation to clarify and reduce misconduct, writes Paul JumpThe launch of the European Science Foundation's new code on research integrity marked a new level of...
George Watson ponders the relevance and impact of poetry in 2010 and does not once mention Bob Dylan. You don't need a weatherman, as the great musician once noted.Keith Flett, London.
Regarding the Universities and Colleges Employers Association's refusal to negotiate a nationwide agreement on job security ("National action over jobs cuts likely, union says", 29 July): Ucea's...
The UK coalition government's strategy for public services, notably the NHS and in all likelihood the academy, is to make massive cuts and then pass to professionals, users and local people...
I find Adrian Quinn's opinion piece extraordinary ("Paying for a course doesn't mean students can buy a degree", 29 July). By stating that attendance at lectures should be compulsory, he seems to...
It is remarkable to see how easily the heads of respectable universities are being seduced by models drawn from the market ("Global future: together alone", 29 July). There is clearly a strong case...
I enjoyed Greg Garrard's interrogation of the packed reading lists in university literature courses ("A novel idea: slow reading", 17 June). This is an old problem: however, it is not as old as one...
Why did you publish "Get in shape: lose the fat" (29 July)? That Clive Bloom rants in public against another department in his own institution is bad form, but his article also suffers from a...
Clive Bloom, please get your facts "in shape". His article on the direction of post-1992 institutions, using Middlesex University as the prime example of how we have got things wrong, is totally...
In his otherwise interesting article on the role of poetry today, "The virtue of verse" (29 July), George Watson claims that Modernist works such as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot "may have been...
Producing graduates who are critical thinkers requires teachers who can bring scholarship and leadership to the academy. It is vital that we find them, says Paul Ramsden
It is a familiar lament: teaching excellence is doomed never to be rewarded as handsomely as research success - if at all. But some institutions are determined to tackle the pedagogical deficit....