It used to be said that the first sign that you are getting old is when police officers seem awfully young. The proof that it's really happened is that retiring permanent secretaries and funding...
Behind the sighs of relief over this week's student application figures from Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell and other supporters of top-up fees, there should be at least a little...
I was disappointed at the hyperbole of your headline "Tutors in despair at illiterate freshers" (February 10) and the subsequent coverage. By selecting seven short and emotive quotations from the 250...
Your report on illiterate freshers reveals what teaching staff have been saying for years. Many factors degrade the student learning experience. These include inadequate basic skills, a culture of...
Students entering university today have a very different skill base compared with those of even ten years ago, and their social and educational experience is different from that of those who are...
You miss out one key contribution that academe can make to wiping out the alleged escalation of illiteracy. English is the only major world language (apart from Chinese) where you often cannot work...
Are the academics (and business leaders) who fulminate against the literacy skills of today's undergraduates the same ones who built their careers on peddling obscurantist drivel, aided by those...
It is all very well for Andrew Oswald to state that "People design their lives the way they want" ("Got a space to think but no space for your car?", February 10). But many people cannot. I spent...
In my daily newspaper: dramatic new evidence showing that our planet is becoming overheated because of global warming. And in The Times Higher : dramatic new evidence showing that academics have...
The articles on commuting to work and the problems of parking charges overlap with a survey we are conducting of commuters during February. We would like to find out the secrets to a stress-free...
In "Rebels in push for vote on Oxford v-c" (February 3), Peter Oppenheimer says: "Many of us believe that (John) Hood thinks of the new governance structure as a lever by which he can increase his...
Irshad Manji's "Islam's no joking matter - and that's the problem" (February 10) misrepresents tolerant Islam. Islam, Judaism and Christianity co-existed peacefully for generations. Islam calls on...
Once again The Times Higher appears to be objecting to the world-beating performance of UK universities in attracting international students ("Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments",...
I was quoted in the article on foreign students in such a way as to make me apparently dismissive of points raised in the rest of the article. My remark on training was a response to a suggestion...
Now we learn that some chairs of sub-panels for the research assessment exercise don't like the new ground rules for early-career researchers ("Rules hurt new blood, say liberal arts staff", February...