Leader: Studies in confusion
One study adjusts teaching quality scores for "bias" towards old universities, another warns against the unfairness of comparing small universities with big ones in the National Student Survey. Pity...
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The spectre of racism remains
As a former student of the department of Russian and Slavonic studies at Leeds University, I witnessed the unfolding of the Frank Ellis affair from close quarters and, at times, with no little...
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Mad about Manchester 1
In response to comments from the parent of a Manchester University student studying English (Letters, November 9), my son is in the second year of a chemistry degree at Manchester. He has 20 hours of...
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Mad about Manchester
If I were a student again, I'd be protesting about the paucity of lectures. Quite rightly, our students want value for money and they're not getting it. When I was at Cambridge University in the...
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Unique Melbourne
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
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Reasonable requests
We at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection were disappointed to be so terribly misrepresented in your article "Primate research 'hit list' sparks fear of attacks" (November 9). It is...
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Unchain yourselves
It is sad that it takes two officially retired but active academics, Ian McNair and Jennifer Bone, to say in public what is known to all in academia - higher education is "selling its soul" ("...
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No scalps were taken
Your otherwise accurate and generous account of the collaboration between Harvard and Manchester universities (and of my role therein) was seriously flawed by a breezy introduction written to grab...
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Temporal concerns
The caption under the picture of St Augustine printed with Sir Patrick Moore's review of Paul Davies's The Goldilocks Enigma (Books, November 2) states the opposite of Augustine's thought, and indeed...
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An old mistake at OU
The Open University seem to be under a serious misapprehension over the new age discrimination regulations ("OU staff criticise 'unfair' age rules", November 9). Times Higher readers should be clear...
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Thinking out of the box 1
Does John Kimberley (Letters, November 2) mean what I think he means by "andragogy"? Is he suggesting that women don't qualify for this variety of adult education? Jenny Woodhouse Cambridge
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Thinking out of the box 2
Birmingham University has phased out history due to lack of demand, but golf remains as a suitable subject for study. Surely it is time for the managers to grasp the nettle, knock down the university...
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Marked improvement
It needs no bravery to reform the 2:1 or clarify the expanding number of first-class degrees ("New class proposed to end 2:1 bonanza", November 9). In admissions to doctoral studies, "a good 2:1"...
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Bound to approve
Who could ever have imagined just how much difference two little pieces of metal would make to the usability of The Times Higher . David Watkins Postgraduate Research Centre Southampton Business...
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Is the dog's bowl half empty or half full?
Animals can exhibit pessimistic and optimistic traits. Michael North asks a psychologist exploring the consciousness of emotion what light this casts on the human condition. The word "murderer"...