Felipe Fernández-Armesto
America is not becoming increasingly religious. It is interested in patriotism, not piety, and the church is a social resource Americans are irreligious. I made this surprising discovery by going to...
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Leader: Mapping out a brighter future
This year's Christmas present for the higher education system is a new university. Not one of the nine former colleges that have been promoted, but the extension and recasting of an existing...
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Leader: Oxford fact and fiction
Columnists and leader writers have been frothing at the mouth since Oxford University published its discussion paper on admissions last week. Proposals for applications to be routed through the...
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Less work - more study and cash 1
The report on term-time working ("Cover-up claims over debt research", November 18) is depressing at face value and raises many questions for all those careers services and student unions that run...
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Less work - more study and cash 2
I read with interest the article "Top-ups blamed for wane in demand" (December 16). I have to disagree with Julian Nicholds's appraisal of the situation that students are being deterred from entering...
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Less work - more study and cash 3
As the press officer for www.stuffyourloans.co.uk , I have to say that I am not in the least bit surprised at the figures in your article on top-up fees. I am also pleased that our request...
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Permanent problem 1
In response to the letters (December 16) on the article about our report ("End the 'jobs for life' culture", December 9), our paper, published in International Studies of Management and Organisation...
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Permanent problem 2
The research at Leeds University that suggests that higher education needs to model itself on industry by using more fixed-term contracts is based on a flawed understanding of temporary employment in...
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Free to speak truth
While I agree substantially with Roy Harris ("Speaking out for the right to speak evil", December 9), he has overlooked one of the major reservations about complete freedom of speech. Free speech is...
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Quality checked
The private providers of higher education in Sri Lanka featured in the report "UK links' quality checked" (December 9) are not unaccredited, as the Sri Lankan University Grants Commission would have...
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Completely open?
While it is true that some fellows of the Royal Society did sign a joint letter expressing opposition to the society's views on open-access publishing, readers of your article "Fellows fight society...
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Reliable rigour
Your discussion of participa-tory research could have been a little more scholarly ("Research by public could be 'unreliable'", December 16). In participatory research,Jmembers of the public are...
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Purposeful point
In his review, Gordon Johnson endorses the claim made in Gordon Graham's book The Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education (Books, December 9) that "there has been...
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A case for debate
To find out why Pakistani applicants are disadvantaged when applying to law schools, researchers must not forget the context of the source of the data ("Law schools in dock over race", December 2)....
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WLTM: red-hot physicist, oozing grey cells
With ever more academics turning to dating agencies, Harriet Swain grabs a glass to mingle with some real talent It's singles night at the London Review of Books' Bloomsbury bookstore and the shop...