World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 5
Among the important points made by Iain Pears in "Universities are not businesses" is the connection between the recent managerial emphasis on "strategic vision" (which includes approved "research...
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End the oppression
Bullying is widespread throughout the workplace, and includes the harassment and victimisation of whistleblowers or those who raise grievances. It is a particularly serious problem in higher...
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Talk is cheap
I doubt David Lammy and Diana Johnson could put forward a coherent argument for the importance of foreign language learning in relation to business competitiveness: the UK's main non-European trading...
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Moving to a new beat
Your article "Now what have we here?" (1 April), which sets out the National Policing Improvement Agency's strategy for increasing the use of new technologies and social science research in...
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Frank apology
Last week's THE covered a conference debate on critical theory and education in which I am reported to have made a direct and general comparison between the situation of Anne Frank and today's...
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Par for the course
In pursuing excellence, whether in golf or in research, the time invested in training and preparation is vital. So how long should a master's degree be? asks Don Olcott Jr
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My eureka moment: Dispositions to lawlessness
Stephen Mumford describes two intellectual breakthroughs that breathed life into a moribund field and challenged the Newtonian world view
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The matrix recoded
Computing courses must address the fact that most IT failures are due to human error and management problems, says Darrell Ince
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8 April 2010
Drive for excellence - Getting a grip on the master’s
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Editor digs in over Medical Hypotheses reform
Bruce Charlton rejects Elsevier ultimatum to implement peer review as publisher threatens him with the sack. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: The best of places to share uncomfortable words
Truly independent alternative bookshops serve students, academics and society by offering an outlet for risky and challenging titles, says Tara Brabazon
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Five the hard way
Union accuses Cardiff of heavy-handed tactics over redundancies. Hannah Fearn reports
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Monoglottal stop
Arresting the decline of foreign language learning in the UK is vital to business competitiveness and young people’s development, argue David Lammy and Diana Johnson
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Sir D’Arcy networks from beyond the grave
Facebook friends flock to a 150-year-old Scottish polymath, reports Sarah Cunnane
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Opinion: Positive, but hardly logical
Simon Blackburn reads between the lines of Hefce’s missive concerning the academy’s ‘support’ for impact