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Contrary to the report in The Times Higher (June 11), the future of chemistry and physics at Nottingham Trent University is not in question. Indeed, the subjects remain key to the courses offered by...
Contrary to the report in The Times Higher (June 11), the future of chemistry and physics at Nottingham Trent University is not in question. Indeed, the subjects remain key to the courses offered by...
David Rose (Letters, June 11) continues to misrepresent me, and continues to avoid answering the question raised. My original criticism was not of his socioeconomic classification schema, but of the...
We have just emerged from, or perhaps we are still in, the age of doubt, which also went under the title of postmodernism. Doubt has seeped through the fabric of our society and left us powerless in...
Stuart Sim seems not to recognise the distinction between doubting your beliefs and believing in your doubt. His advocacy of a sceptical society represents the latter of these, when he should have...
The Council for Industry and Higher Education recommends that universities adopt a didactic role in relation to ethics and morals ("Uphold morals, industry tells v-cs", June 11). I suggest we begin...
I am delighted to see that the business world wants universities to be "the critical conscience of society and the repository of a moral authority". Furthermore, a report issued by business wants...
Consideration is being given to proposed changes to the foundation degree ("Overhaul plan for foundations", May 28), which would involve relaxing the work-based elements of the qualification and...
Philip Sadler's accusation in his review of Managing Britannia (Books, April 30) that Robert Protherough and John Pick have done "only half their homework" is sheer cheek! How would Sadler know?...
Pressing the case for stop-and-search procedures on campuses, one manager tells The Times Higher that "lots of things go missing". Indeed, in some cases, this seems to amount to whole university...
In his new book, Harvard academic Samuel Huntingdon argues that the American way is under threat from Hispanic culture. Walter Ellis speaks to the professor once regarded as a liberal in The Times...
Lecturer Julie Pinches relates the highs and lows as her students put together a fashion show and hope for selection to London's Topshop Graduate Fashion Week Week One: End of January. In the final-...

How long before academics are told: that blazer is so last century - and so is your job? Caroline Evans ponders the effects of equating dress sense with pedagogic sense
Scholars from around the world meet in Dublin this week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's notoriously tricky masterpiece, Ulysses . Steve Farrar joined them. Eishiro Ito is enjoying...
Is modern art the cutting edge of creativity or ugly, sensation-seeking and aethetically challenged? Donald Kuspit and Norman Rosenthal cross pallet knives in the last in The Times Higher 's series...
Is modern art the cutting edge of creativity or ugly, sensation-seeking and aethetically challenged? Donald Kuspit and Norman Rosenthal cross pallet knives in the last in The Times Higher's series of...