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Michael Loughlin argues that "audit quality" in higher education is intellectually untenable (Features, THES , March 22). This has huge implications. Quality assurance is a sham. Thousands make a...
Michael Loughlin argues that "audit quality" in higher education is intellectually untenable (Features, THES , March 22). This has huge implications. Quality assurance is a sham. Thousands make a...
The United Kingdom spends about 1 per cent of gross domestic product on higher education compared with 3 per cent in the United States ("Show us the money, Mr Brown", THES , April 12). Both spend...
As effective as vice-chancellors and their advisers are at imposing their will unchallenged on governing bodies, when it comes to middle managers, such as professors and heads of department, they are...
It is not true that "the universities of Oxford and Cambridge do not have a charter or an act" ("Legal ins and outs of power", THES , April 12). They are governed in accordance with the Universities...
Your leader sentiment ("It's a smart move to support your vice-chancellor", THES , April 12) depressingly missed the point. It is not "my vice-chancellor right or wrong" but: is my vice-chancellor up...
The exclusion of staff and student governors from key committees is not a peculiarity of new universities. The University of London's council includes student representatives, but not trade unions or...
Blindsight is a bête noire of Semir Zeki, the reviewer of Out of Mind (Books, THES , April 5). It guarantees a review that is anything but balanced. Zeki ignores evidence by Petra Stoerig and...
So, it's too many women that is the problem for medicine ("What's up doc? A lack of men", THES , April 12). Twenty years ago girls were not going into medicine because they did not have science A...
So, "young women" need to realise that "the normal working pattern of a trained doctor is incompatible with family life"? But such a working pattern is acceptable for fathers, is it? Pam Lunn...
Enough doctors? Only if we free the market in medical training. Your editorial is correct: there cannot be too many women doctors and the medical profession is "focusing on the wrong issue". We need...
Kenneth Cardwell's article, "Try teaching democracy in an occupied territory", (Opinion, THES , April 12) is a one-sided, political diatribe about the present crisis in the Middle East. Cardwell's...
ߣߣÊÓÆµ was first colonised by humans between 55,000 and 65,000 years ago. But how they got there remains unsolved, writes Caroline Davis. One of the most promising routes proposed was through the...
As the season of dawn chorus intensifies to its crescendo in May, a group of scientists has been investigating why some birds rise earlier than others, writes Caroline Davis. In a typical Welsh...
Pat Bracken questions the validity and appropriateness of the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. He tells Adam James that sending PTSD experts to places such as Afghanistan may even be...
Comparing current events in the Middle East to the Holocaust is misleading and counterproductive and perpetuates a tendency among Jews to think and act like victims, argues David Cesarani During a...