Bully points
During 35 years working in higher education, I made many decisions that some found not to their liking. According to your coverage of bullying ("Bullying rife across campus", September 16), this...
During 35 years working in higher education, I made many decisions that some found not to their liking. According to your coverage of bullying ("Bullying rife across campus", September 16), this...
It was disappointing to read the inaccurate reporting of Victim Support's hate crime research project in Frank Furedi's article "Be afraid, be very afraid... no don't" (September 16). The main aims...
Blackburn College has been involved with foundation degrees from the outset. It offered two degrees in the pilot and now offers 28 titles for 2005-06. All but one of these have been written and...
Your decision to create your own overall student satisfaction ratings rather than believe what the students said is breathtakingly arrogant (" Times Higher satisfaction rating" September 23). After...
I was surprised to see Nottingham Trent University categorised as having the least satisfied students with regard to its teacher training provision ("Who measures up to student expectations and who...
There is a major omission in your student satisfaction ratings - there is no reference to the smaller higher education colleges represented by the Standing Conference of Principals. Many of these,...
I read with interest the opinions of Robert May ("Forget the deckchairs - are we on the right ship?", September 23) and Nancy Rothwell (Columnist, September 23) on the research assessment exercise....
Nigel Biggar (Why I, September 23) doubts if Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code "will ever end up on the reading list of a degree course". Actually, it figures on mine, along with the - much better -...
As Feminist Review publishes its 25th anniversary issue, Anna Fazackerley looks back over its fulfilling, dedicated and turbulent past and talks to members of the collective about politics, race,...
It is a strange man who argues that the Earth rests at the centre of the universe, a bizarre woman who thinks that leeches can cure arthritis, a true oddball who tries to turn lead into gold....
Steven Schwartz has ridden a bitter dispute, shaped national policy and opened minds to the market. Now he's quitting. Faisal al Yafai reports on the man who's engineered radical change at Brunel...
As a new website seeks to bring order to the naming of animal species, Michael North admires the handiwork of some of biology's creative jokers The Hitler beetle is a small, blind insect that lurks...
John Hall-Edwards' hand and Gracie Fields' uterus, Birmingham University For Major John Hall-Edwards, the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen proved to be a life-changing revelation. In 1896, the...
The medieval well-heeled loved keeping small pets, even though the habit raised eyebrows, says Steve Farrar The small dogs, caged birds and tame squirrels were much loved by the medieval nuns of St...
Brussels, 28 September 2005 How to make green slime, the Crazy Tale of BSE, mathematics you can touch, the Children’s University, sharks, quarks and the Beagle Mars lander... these are just...