Boycott fallout 3
Your article “Israel critic ­voted out” (June 15) strongly implies that De Paul University denied Norman Finkelstein tenure because of his criticism of Israel. This mis­charac­...
Your article “Israel critic ­voted out” (June 15) strongly implies that De Paul University denied Norman Finkelstein tenure because of his criticism of Israel. This mis­charac­...
The decision of the University and College Union congress to instigate a national debate on the question of whether it would be appropriate to boycott Israeli universities is condemned as an attack...
The chief executive of the Higher Education Academy says that a reduction from 30 to 15 in the total membership of the council and a reduction from 16 to four in the elected representatives of...
Like Philip Burgess and Paul Hudson, I have been an ­elected member of the councils of both the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and the Higher Education Academy and,...
The reviewer of my book Studying Shakespeare on Film has almost entirely mis­understood or misrepresented its content (Special Textbook guide, May 25). Catherine Richardson argues that the...
It is disturbing that your ­editorial and news story on green universities (“Leeds Met tops first UK green rankings”, June 8) are couched in terms of profit, competition and growth when...
You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Dame Julia Higgins. Although she has been president of the British Association and deputy rector of Imperial College, The Times Higher couldn’t quite believe...
I have no problem guessing that John Jost is on the “Left” (Opinion, June 15). I can almost hear his teeth grinding as he writes almost neutral remarks about the Right. Most self-confessed liberals...
This is a year of anniversaries for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community. It is the 50th anniversary of the Wolfenden report, which provided an enduring framework for legal reform...
Before Wolfenden, two main defects were identified in the law as it applied to prostitution: first, the meagreness of the penalty for soliciting; second, the necessity to prove that the person...
Craig, a 45-year-old customer services supervisor, stops at the corner of a street in a town he passes on the way home from work most Fridays. He usually texts Mandy, whom he has known for about...
People have funny ideas about Shakespeare. In Chicago recently I chatted to a lady who asked me what I did and where I worked. I told her I work in Stratford-upon-Avon as a Shakespeare scholar. “Oh...
Next week’s Manchester International Festival will not only feature original arts performances from around the world — including the premiere of a Chinese “circus opera” scored and designed by...
Deadline: 30/11/2007
Deadline: 22/02/2008