Laurie Taylor Column
POPPLETON EVENING NEWS Shock probe into pork pie findings Dramatic evidence that research carried out by University of Poppleton academics may be flawed has been uncovered by a Poppleton Evening News...
POPPLETON EVENING NEWS Shock probe into pork pie findings Dramatic evidence that research carried out by University of Poppleton academics may be flawed has been uncovered by a Poppleton Evening News...
In the shadow of Harvard University, I share the Schadenfreude . When the bus whisks me through Harvard Square, with its smart, bourgeois air, I get a sense of how the other half lives. Now Harvard's...
There is no such thing as victimless industrial action - at least not of the successful variety. And, in higher education, the victims are almost bound to be the students. Academics who strike or...
Last year's initial foray into the world of awards was one of the most rewarding initiatives that this newspaper has ever undertaken. The response in terms of entries, sponsorship and interest in the...
How ironic that you have a pro vice-chancellor patronisingly splitting academics into old and cynical worn down husks and young virile and able staff ("Carping is a real senior disservice", February...
Why, on the very day of my viva for my doctorate on Vera Brittain, one of the most influential and important feminists of the past century, did The Times Higher have to include with its article...
Boris Johnson writes of "serious dissatisfaction with teaching among students" ("Today's students get a raw deal", February 24) quoting students, the National Union of Students and a vice-chancellor...
Bob Brecher refers to students as "customers" ("Go to aisle 4 to pick up your 2:1", February 24). But in the new tuition-fee regime this analogy may not be very helpful. It may be better to think of...
Boris Johnson's view of the student's lot is limited by out-of-date assumptions, in particular about the use (and abuse) of the web. How can he suggest that personal interactions with tutors are...
Sir Roy Meadow gave evidence in the murder trial of Sally Clark that the General Medical Council found to be erroneous and misleading. The Court of Appeal criticised the statistical evidence and said...
Do Sir Roy Meadow or David Southall realise the suffering that was imposed on those women incorrectly sentenced to life imprisonment on an opinion Meadow gave as a proven fact in a court of law? Most...
The judgment by Mr Justice Collins in the Meadow case has enormous implications for the law and practice of professional regulation. Forensic practitioners giving evidence in good faith are now...
One thing puzzles me about the dispute involving Procter and Gamble (P&G) and researchers at Sheffield University. According to the International Conference on Harmonisation guideline for...
Richard Austen-Baker's claims (Letters, February 24) that school-leavers have literacy problems as a result of the influence of "educationists" on the Government and school system are laughable....
The feature on architecture on campuses ("Let's play nicely together, shall we?", February 24), revealed the flaw in the popular idea that the building of so-called "creativity-enhancing"...