In ߣߣÊÓƵ, it has never cost so much to go to university. Consequently, students are no longer buying an education; they are buying a commodity they expect will lead to a job so they can pay off...
Our vice-chancellor was yesterday forced to apologise to David Lammy, the new Minister for Higher Education, for what he described as "a most unfortunate clerical error".According to inside sources,...
Alan Ryan wishes John Denham would build bridges instead of picking fights
In offering colleges new powers, the Government could find that it damages the very qualifications it set out to improve and extend
Christopher Bartlett, a leading authority on British foreign policy and international relations, has died.He was born on 12 October 1931, was brought up in Dorset and was educated at Queen Elizabeth'...
How marvellously refreshing it was to read the glorious affirmation by the University of Chicago's Robert Zimmer that the whole and entire raison d'etre of his top-ranked university is "a singular...
You acknowledged last year that the ߣߣÊÓƵ-QS World University Rankings were not well suited to recognise the particular characteristics of institutions such as the London School of...
Journalism has long been a target for lazy and ill-informed academics who have not experienced the demands of a newsroom. I do not believe that Bob Franklin and Julian Petley are among them, but...
You report that "across continental Europe, the masters is a research-intensive course aimed at preparing students for a PhD and a career in academia" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....
The article "Pack science off to revive the wellspring of creativity" (9 October) on the matter of the supply of young Asian scientists to the UK was let down by its illustration.Why two apparently...
Congratulations to David Lammy on his appointment as the new Minister for Higher Education ("Lammy steps up to HE as Rammell is moved sideways", 9 October). I do hope that his appointment will...
To suggest that the University and College Union (UCU) leadership has somehow defied its members' wishes (Letters, 9 October) is disingenuous.The reason that the UCU currently has a clearly defined...
I fear that James D. Williams (Letters, 9 October) may be confusing science with naturalism. Science pursues knowledge by following the evidence. Naturalism restricts itself by excluding the...
Despite what Mike Hill (Letters, 9 October) says about information on graduate prospects, the statistics are far from ideal. There are a number of problems with variables depending on the type of...
Further to the article "REF could penalise those working across disciplines" (2 October), we wish to clarify that the study was conducted by Jonathan Levitt with the help of Mike Thelwall. The study...