Bridging the language gap
I read with amusement, interest and a degree of recognition William Burns' opinion article ("Ditch the island mentality", 4 September).However, I have two objections to make. The first has to do with...
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Staff costs remain steady
Your article "Finances top list of threats to the health of UK sector" (4 September) includes the assertion from Grant Thornton that for universities, "pay is somewhere between 60 and 70 per cent of...
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Thoughts and feelings 1
In his work on Jungian individual difference, the psychologist David Keirsey posited two kinds of "ideas" people: intuitive thinking types, who value logic-based ideas, and intuitive feeling types,...
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Thoughts and feelings 2
Contributions to the recent debate on university standards have characterised the Government's current view as being that the function of higher education is principally to prepare students for the...
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Right-thinking Marxists
I was interested in Anthony Glees' revelation about the apparent "left-of-centre to Marxist consensus" in education ("Culture in the state-funded sector condones failure, claims professor", 4...
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UK complicit in US actions
Alistair Duff justifies singling out the United States for criticism for its use of illegal interrogation techniques in the War on Terror because he claims that no other Western country has used...
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Spelling is a teaching issue
Paul Seedhouse (Letters, 4 September) says that I should not write about spelling because I am not a specialist in this area and because no coherent principles were applied to what I said on this...
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Dickens of a debate
While I agree with some of the sentiments Jonathan Taylor expressed about not colonising the past with our current preoccupations ("Progressively benighted", 14 August), I have to take issue with his...
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University of York - Racism allegations probed
Police are investigating an allegation of race hate said to have occurred at a National Union of Students (NUS) training seminar at the University of York. The Yorkshire Post reported that a sign...
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Canterbury Christ Church, Sussex - Mules outsmart mum and dad
Mules, hybrids of donkeys and horses, are smarter than either of their parent species, according to an intelligence test involving identification of the symbols on food buckets. Psychologist Britta...
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University of Central Lancashire - Farewell to a room of one's own
Staff at the University of Central Lancashire are lamenting the loss of a common room where they were able to escape the demands of the day job. The university's Foster lounge offered respite for...
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Cranfield University - Battle robots stomp to victory
War robots designed by academics at Cranfield University have won a Ministry of Defence (MoD) competition to develop autonomous machines to assist the military. As ߣߣÊÓƵ reported (28...
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Institute of Education - Bullies are victims too
The stereotypical image of the school bully needs to be revised, researchers suggest. According to a study by the Institute of Education, most children who bully are themselves bullied by other...
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University of Exeter - Green ideals, flyaway habits
Even the most committed environmentalists are not prepared to accept extra green taxes and are deeply sceptical of carbon-offsetting schemes, research from the University of Exeter has found. In a...
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University of Hull - Tinseltown comes to Yorkshire
It's "Welcome to 'Hullywood'" as the University of Hull launches a masters degree in British cinema, which it claims is the first in the country to focus solely on the British film industry. "There...