Engineers are worried about the shortage of science students (page 7), linguists are already trimming degrees to three years, abandoning the traditional year abroad, because they are struggling to...
The CIA funded British intelligentsia to help stop communism. The results were mixed, but they paved the way for Tony Blair, says Hugh Wilford. It was a revelation that scandalised British...
In an incendiary polemic, Baruch Kimmerling attacks the violent policies of Ariel Sharon and argues that failure to see that Israeli and Palestinian fates are intertwined could reduce the Jewish...
Stealing college mascots, swallowing live goldfish, transforming domes into giant breasts - the student prank is alive and kicking, but, says Adrian Mourby, not everyone is laughing. The 150ft-high...
Ice hockey started in Britain, but students face red tape, a dearth of facilities and financial obstacles in efforts to set up a league. Matthew Baker reports It may be a bit of a sporting sideline...
Far from being a pervert or a fanatic, as some have supposed, Hieronymus Bosch was a man of his time who reflected the thoughts and fears of a society obsessed with the apocalypse, argues Laurinda...
Oxford's next v-c is an energetic all-rounder who has won kudos in the worlds of cricket, industry and academe. Claire Sanders and Richard Thomson report. John Hood is a cricketing man. He becomes...
Poor response rates are not the only problem with the planned annual student satisfaction survey ("Just 10 students may blight careers", THES, June ). The wording and scoring cast severe doubt on the...
Where is the evidence that students at "high-ranking universities... judge their institutions more critically than students at less-prestigious universities because the latter have lower expectations...
Reliable information is unlikely to be gleaned from student responses to the sample survey questions you print. A question about libraries asks for strength of agreement with a positive statement;...
The student satisfaction survey will be invalid not only because responders differ in opinion from non-responders, but also because the agree/disagree boxes are flawed. The array of five boxes...
The annual student survey is wrongly positioned and technologically underpowered. It would be better to ask universities how they gather students' opinions, how they examine the efficacy of their...
I was interested to read Sir Christopher Ball's article on students' low self-esteem ("Inspire your students to blow their own trumpet", Opinion, THES, June ). I have found lack of confidence to be...
I was disappointed with Christopher Ball's reference to disabled people. In identifying self-esteem as "key to success in higher education", Ball says that this can be learnt and taught by anyone "...
I was delighted to see Sir Derek Roberts citing London Technology Network ("Narrow focus key to London innovation", THES, June 13) but concerned that this may have left readers confused. London...