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Bristol University has not disaffiliated from the National Union of Students as your editorial states ("Help the union to avoid last orders", March 26). A majority of the students who took part in a...
Bristol University has not disaffiliated from the National Union of Students as your editorial states ("Help the union to avoid last orders", March 26). A majority of the students who took part in a...
Your editorial takes the decline in support for student union bars as a simple fact rather than looking at a social problem. If it is really true that students are drinking less, not only will this...
Queen Mary, University of London, has just introduced inspections of toilets before examinations. Will this practice become bog standard? Jeff Duckett Queen Mary, University of London
Reporting that "Sociology has an identity crisis" (March 26) suggests that it had a coherent identity. But there has always been vigorous debate about the nature of the subject, its boundaries and...
Mo Dodson (Letters, March 26) should read your article "Animal tests 'upsetting but important'" (March 19) or see the video it describes instead of condemning the photograph of an undergraduate of...
G. R. Berridge's labelling of the AUT as "the Association of Useless Tactics" (Letters, March 19) looked shaky even before publication of the employers' new offer. Now it is clear that the AUT tactic...
The decline in student numeracy and literacy ("Straight-A students show shaky grasp of the basics", March 26) suggests an alternative approach that the Association of University Teachers could take...
AUT communications have made it perfectly clear that the memorandum of understanding between it and employers will not lead to rises as high as 12 per cent for colleagues at the top of scales. Indeed...
Just to say that following your completely biased reporting of the lecturers' pay dispute, this department is now unwilling to continue its subscription to your anti-AUT Murdoch rag. Johnny...
The BBC's decision not to broadcast the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures is disappointing ("Lectures might be ghost of Xmas past", March 26). For many children, particularly those from...
When I was shortlisted to do the Christmas lectures, I was asked what sponsorship I had and how my lectures would fit into the national curriculum. Well, I wanted to enthuse children with the...
The Christmas lectures have suffered from media dumbing down. Whether this slump is led by the scientists or the producers is hard to discern. But Michael Faraday, who gave 19 lectures, had plenty to...
All four of the doctoral students The Times Higher is tracking ("My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning", March 19) are women. Is this "girl power"? This confirms the point that...
I was taken aback by Susan Blackmore's unenthusiastic review of Max Velmans' How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? (Books, March 26). In discussions about consciousness, there are doers who...
Vilayanur Ramachandran, renowned for his work on cognition and the brain, drew flak for using neuroscience to draft 'universal laws' of art. Anthony Freeman asked him if he had any regrets. One...