The often lengthy period between the naming and arrival of a new vice-chancellor can be a dead time for a university. But the debate now raging at Oxford ensures that there will be no such hiatus...
A new debate began in the Common Room section of The THES website this week, when a reader asked: "Should a higher education minister have had a higher education?" It is a question that has been...
Few in higher education will shed tears over the exit of Margaret Hodge, reports Alison Goddard When Margaret Hodge visited Cambridge University recently, she was greeted by protesters. They dusted...
George Orwell is claimed by all political sides as the voice of (their) truth. This is ironic given that Orwell opposed those whose voices did not accord with his frequent changes of opinion, says...
What are universities for? The question at the heart of the academic mission has been given added urgency by education secretary Charles Clarke. Gordon Graham, professor of philosophy at Aberdeen...
What are universities for? The question at the heart of the academic mission has been given added urgency by education secretary Charles Clarke. Ben Okri, novelist and poet, says higher education is...
What are universities for? The question at the heart of the academic mission has been given added urgency by education secretary Charles Clarke. Gordon Graham, professor of philosophy at Aberdeen...
To comprehend the lives of the early humans who laid the foundations of civilisations, Steven Mithen sent a fictional observer to visit them Late one afternoon last October, I climbed a hill in...
To accuse new universities of "bureaucratic practice" as Frank Furedi does ("Why I believe new universities mean lower academic standards", THES , June 13) and to suggest that this has contributed to...
Frank Furedi's anxiety that "whenever politicians decide to expand the definition of a university, the quality of academic education deteriorates" is reminiscent of the alarm of propertied men about...
Sir Derek Roberts' narrow view on improving London's poor innovation record ("Narrow focus key to London innovation", THES , June 13) does the capital no favours. Ignoring the potential of...
Sir Richard Sykes' consistent position that there should be no more than five research-intensive universities ("Teaching-focused 'not worthy' of university title", THES , June 6) is to be admired...
Medieval heresy was often depicted as a disease, albeit not a virus ("Get medieval with al-Qaida", THES , June 13). Inquisitors saw their activities as cutting off poisoned limbs. However, the effect...
Your Whistleblowers report about alleged academic corruption in the journalism department at Liverpool John Moores University ( THES , June 6) was based largely on documents I submitted to an...
Your report "Health academics fear NHSU will grab slice of research pie" ( THES , June 13) on the National Health Service University's possible involvement in research was inaccurate in one key...