Retention rates initiative
Memo from the Office of the Vice ChancellorTo: All Academic Staff Subject: Dropout rates It has been brought to my attention that the University of Poppleton takes first place in the Bottom Ten...
Memo from the Office of the Vice ChancellorTo: All Academic Staff Subject: Dropout rates It has been brought to my attention that the University of Poppleton takes first place in the Bottom Ten...
I am not yet up there with Salman Rushdie or Tintin. Disappointingly, from my publishers' point of view, no one has yet pronounced a death sentence against me. Regrettably, the Commission for Racial...
The Government's long-awaited response to Lord Leitch's review of skills last week proposed a course of action that ministers hope will lead the country into a skills "revolution" ("Embrace Leitch or...
I take exception to your portrayal of job security as a privilege ("Union alarm as pre-92s demolish statutes", July 20). On choosing a university career, many staff traded higher salaries in the...
I am sorry that Gerard DeGroot, the reviewer of my book Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon , did not appreciate my attempt to explore weapons of mass destruction...
The articles regarding the relationship that exists between students and their university ("Move to curb student rights", "NUS alarmed by one-sided student contract", July 13) raise many questions....
What a depressing article from Phillip Brown ("When merit means nothing", July 20). Brown paints education as the background from which people "tailor themselves to the perceived requirements for...
The question of funding of political parties raised in the review of The Cost of Democracy: Party Funding in Modern British Politics (Books, July 20) seems to ignore two key points. First, the...
You should have looked further than the Daily Mail for the research for your report "Cultural studies conference looks to shake off Mickey Mouse image" (News, July 20). Calling up three people for...
We should not be surprised that "Centres of excellence fail to transform learning" (July 13). Most academics know that if excellence is anything, it is usually a consequence of inspired individuals...
I am sorry to read that we are CETL failures for having effected a transformation of the student learning experience before turning our attention to innovative ways of rewarding ourselves with...
Your article about the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (News, July 20) stated that it is part of Cambridge University. However, the centre is an independent educational charity based...
Christian Art
What links the Impressionists, Nazi myth- making and Douglas Adams' doomed sperm whale? Roger Griffin offers his 'big theory' of the 20th century, and a possible solution to our present-day woes Our...
Latest research suggests that sleeping on a problem and trusting to gut instinct both have a sound scientific basis. Geoff Watts investigates. When the choice is hard or the problem defies reasoned...