I have seen many election campaigns, but the one taking place in Germany right now is by far the most boring. It is easy to see why: 62.2 million Germans will cast their votes on September, and their...
Stephen Instone, an inspirational teacher of Classics, has died.
Two recent pieces in ߣߣÊÓƵ struck me as shocking and pathetic. Richard Austen-Baker's determination to blame school teachers and educationists for the weaknesses of teaching in UK...
Once again we have an extraordinary letter that suggests that education is different from any other subject taught at university. I very much doubt that Richard Austen-Baker would agree that lawyers...
According to Phil Baty (Leader, 17 September), now is the time for the higher education sector to unite to make its case for enhanced public investment. He says: "It is obvious that we have a strong...
After the furore surrounding MPs' expenses, it was with amazement that I read the news item about the use of university funds by Simon Lee, former vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University,...
In an item on the celebratory 25th birthday issue of Wasafiri ("Worthy traveller: publication that reshaped the landscape turns silver", 17 September), an article of mine in the birthday issue was...
When one compares today's bloated, interventionist US Government with its minimalist counterpart of 1900, it is difficult to take seriously Gerald Houseman's contention that "privatising and non-...
Some of the sympathetic reactions to a university's micromanagement strategy ("You want jobsworths? Then pay us what the job's worth", 10 September) betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the...
While I was delighted to see my academic speciality, the Beatles, featured in Gary Day's column (17 September), I was less impressed with the factual errors the column contained.It was George...
I suppose that the omission of science and engineering topics from your latest Textbook Guide (17 September) is unsurprising, given their consistent absence from your weekly Books section.Greg...
It would be charitable to assume that the essay on Lust ("Seven Deadly Sins", 17 September) was a spoof, designed to remind us of the nastiness of a certain kind of man-to-man talk. But perhaps...
From downloads of lectures to entire courses for free, Rebecca Attwood reports on how universities are fitting open educational resources into their missions and marketing
Tourists can now visit even the most far-flung destinations, but Judith Weingarten believes that one must settle in for a long stay to get a real sense of foreign lands
Alex Prichard considers the rebirth of anarchism as a scholarly subject, its future in an impact-oriented academy and its lessons for democracy