They come not to teach
E-learning consultants invent crises and create divisions between students and teachers so they can sell their wares. Tara Brabazon analyses the rise of the digital Raj
E-learning consultants invent crises and create divisions between students and teachers so they can sell their wares. Tara Brabazon analyses the rise of the digital Raj
Empathy, tact, eyes in the back of the head and non-squeaky shoes are the key to this essential role“The key to invigilating is actually to do it – not just to see oneself as sitting in a large room...

Shock waves once again ran round the campus this week when it was learnt that a second decapitated body had been discovered in the Science Park undergrowth.Forensic tests have now confirmed that this...
A degree is no mark of genius, and we shouldn't expect it to be, says Alan Ryan
The ability to improvise is a crucial sign of high intelligence. So why, wonders Steve Fuller, does it enjoy so little status within the academy?
Despite some progress, this year's Green League reveals that universities are still failing to deliver a lead on sustainability
Simeon Lowy, a highly regarded scholar and lecturer of Hebrew and Jewish studies, has died of old age at 87.Rabbi Dr Lowy taught at the University of Leeds for nearly 30 years in what was the Semitic...
The UK's first neuroethics centre will open at the University of Oxford following an award of more than £800,000 from the Wellcome Trust. The grant has been awarded to Julian Savulescu, a member of...
Geoffrey Alderman's wishes in respect of the external examiner system are not entirely clear. He wants "a complete overhaul", but he also wants its abolition ("External examiners under pressure to...
Robert Verkerk, chief executive of the Alliance of Natural Health, said: "You can't apply (to homoeopathy) the existing interpretation of evidence-based medicine, which says RCTs (randomised...
The criteria for the Laing chair in complementary medicine at the University of Exeter currently held by Edzard Ernst include the following:"to provide leadership within the national scene in the...
The article "Where has all the passion gone?" (26 June) is interesting but the Opinionpanel poll is certainly not "the first poll of UK university students' political affiliations", even though its...
Reading the article on the alleged decline in student radicalism and Paul Whiteley's views on the lack of Marxists in his classes these days, I am tempted to suggest that your reporter should get out...
Sir Colin Campbell's claim that the arrests of the "Nottingham Two" is not a matter of academic freedom (Letters, 19 June) is not acceptable. He essentially admits the charges laid at his door by...
I'd like to set a few matters straight in response to Duncan Wu's rather dismissive review of my book Sunshine (19 June). I could live with the jibes about the use of the first person and the "...