Leader: 'Non-stories': a survey
The Times Higher has compiled a list of "non-stories" that the press is using to fill pages now that the floods have receded, clearing has failed to degenerate into chaos and Paris Hilton has been...
The Times Higher has compiled a list of "non-stories" that the press is using to fill pages now that the floods have receded, clearing has failed to degenerate into chaos and Paris Hilton has been...
The decision by Stirling University to offer PhD students the opportunity to submit a series of linked peer-reviewed journal articles rather than a traditional thesis ("Stirling plans to waive PhD...
Stirling University's initiative is a step forward towards more continental style PhDs in the UK. Years ago, I was informed by Aberdeen University that there are no statutory barriers to a thesis...
Stirling University is right to think that its thesis-free PhD offers "better preparation for an academic career than the traditional dissertation". It will produce graduates with no coherent...
I always thought the point of postgraduate research was to allow a bright person to pursue a subject he or she loves, make an original contribution to it and so add to the sum of human knowledge. To...
Alistair McCulloch claims that it should be acceptable for PhD students to resort to "professional" proofreaders (defined as individuals "professional in the use of English", such as secondary-school...
Popping along to Fistral beach to enrol on a surf science course ("Sun, sea, sand and sexing up clearing"; Opinion, August 17) I encounter Alan Ryan. He tells me not to waste my time and money and...
Alan Ryan's argument about GCSEs is an odd one for an educationist to advance, ignoring as it does the cumulative and maturing effect many students experience as they move from GCSE towards A level...
Unlike Dr Chav ("Who are you calling a thicko prole?", August 17), I am female and have worked in only one "new" university so far due to entering academia after obtaining a first-class degree at the...
Dr Chav makes a poignant statement about social class- based stratification in higher education. The reality is that when the tuition fees cap is released in 2010, we will face a starker two-tier...
Dr Chav's account of the snobbery of academia towards the white working class contains cultural imperialism of its own: crowning the "chav" as the defining icon of working-class culture. Nearly 20...
I have received a voicemail message from the vice-chancellor of a well-known grey-brick university in the heart of Dickens country. "We're rebranding!" he shouts. "Whole bloody lot! I want a new name...
As plans are unveiled for a major exhibition on Jack the Ripper, Clive Bloom considers the enduring cultural and scholarly fascination with both the killer and his East End hunting ground There was...

When Bernard Wasserstein began his history of modern Europe, he was a fresh faced young lecturer. Twenty-five years on - and seriously behind schedule - he finally delivered on his contract
Deadline: 10/10/2007