"Is this it?" I thought, as I joined the animal-rights protesters outside Balliol College, Oxford, on Saturday. Yet another demonstration against the construction of a new animal laboratory was...
Slavoj Zizek urges academics, who too easily use false terms like 'freedom', to reach for the red ink The Amish practise the tradition of rumspringa . At 18, their children, who have since birth been...
The Sutton Trust's sums on state school students at university do not add up, says Sam Freedman The Sutton Trust regularly argues that there are 3,000 state school students "missing" from leading...
Anger at BNP visit to St Andrews The leader of the British National Party has been invited to speak next Wednesday at St Andrews, where Prince William studies. Anti-racist groups condemned the...
" The Arts and Humanities Research Board is to produce a 'top ten list' of the most important journals in such subjects as media and cultural studies in a bid to establish new performance measures...
The insecurity faced by contract researchers on fixed-term contracts in the UK has proved an intractable problem. For the past two weeks The Times Higher has highlighted both the number of...
Vice-chancellors who think the answer to their financial worries lies in increasing recruitment overseas beware, there may be stiff competition for international students from unexpected quarters....
The Arts and Humanities Research Board is attempting to impose a rank order of journals on the arts and humanities community in the name of a spurious objectivity imposed by the Office of Science and...
The proposal to create lists of top-ten journals will lead to a number of unintended consequences that are as regrettable as they are predictable. Rejection rates for the top journals are certain to...
Groundbreaking paradigm-shift research that challenges existing orthodoxies and moves disciplines in new directions is surely desirable. But such work does not necessarily find a welcome in...
Plans to produce yet more league tables are deeply disturbing to historians. The proposal would lead to publication of fewer articles and a reduction in the dissemination of research. It would be a...
The pressure on academics to publish in so-called "prestigious" journals is already having a detrimental impact on the likelihood of writing for, and working with, campaigning groups. Such activities...
Publishing a top ten list for journals in each field is a great idea, provided the charts are updated every week and published on a Radio 1 show hosted by a big-name DJ or, failing that, Laurie...
Your leader "Top-up fears diminish" (January 28) is right - it would be reasonable to expect many applicants to have deferred their gap year to beat the fees hike. Perhaps the figures reported in the...
Fees and fundraising are the key factors in the underfunding of Oxbridge compared with the best US universities. But these constraints are linked by the UK system of centralised regulation. UK...