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"Only academics with direct responsibility for teaching and research (aka deans) should actually rule," says Terence Kealey ("Emmanuel lights the way on self-governance", October 19). Why did I think...
"Only academics with direct responsibility for teaching and research (aka deans) should actually rule," says Terence Kealey ("Emmanuel lights the way on self-governance", October 19). Why did I think...
Terence Kealey refers to administrative staff as "college servants". How very medieval. At least at Birkbeck the academics and administrators work in partnership to ensure that good governance is...
I was saddened to read letters attacking Joanna Bourke's column ("Men, too, must work to take back the night", October 19). J. Green's letter contains ill-informed comments. Reforms to rape laws are...
If the report on governance in church universities and colleges had suggested that those institutions could or should behave in the way described in The Times Higher ("Call to spell out Christian...
Sean Wallis (Letters, October 26) condemns the Government's attempts to involve universities in its academies project. So why doesn't he resign from University College London, an institution that is...
On a visit to my local Marks & Spencer, I had to walk past a picket by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, one that singled out this store in its campaign against "Israeli apartheid". The PSC's...
Alan Ryan misinterprets a number of key findings of Sutton Trust research (Opinion, 26 October). A report by the trust did identify 3,000 state school students who each year have the grades to enter...
One of the occupational hazards of being a politician is that one is frequently accused of holding opinions one has never expressed. It does not feel any better to be accused by an eminent academic...
Contrary to your summary of my views, I have never "defended" Oxbridge admissions ("Oxbridge targets 'cannot be met': Ryan", October 26). Tutors spend immense amounts of time and effort making fine...
It was bad enough, says John Brinnamoor, going to an alumni reunion. How much worse, he then discovered, to have to organise one
The early part of the 20th century witnessed an explosion of avant- garde art that threw off the shackles of the past to embrace the dynamism and challenge of the modern age. Stephen Bury revisits an...
What does 'Britishness' mean to people living in former colonies and to migrants newly arrived in the UK? Vron Ware decided to find out. The concept of national identity is in crisis. Despite Gordon...
The Death of Socrates - Socrates
Ezra Pound
Music in the Post-9/11 World