Getting physical
(Photograph) - To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Institute of Physics has launched a campaign this month to demonstrate how physics has changed our lives
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No need to travel on the open road to First Class learning
Get a life, virtually speaking. Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Bill is a student. It is 10pm on a Saturday night. Where is he? Let us guess. He is checked in at the Log...
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Get a life, virtually speaking
Educators are now grappling with the real issues created by the emergence of digital spaces, David Squires reports. Below, Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Virtual worlds...
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OU looks to indies for content
The Open University is to invite independent producers to make programmes for the channel in competition with its own production department. Under its new agreement with the Higher Education Funding...
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Tight controls must not squeeze out innovation
The 1980s and 1990s have seen the effect in Britain of carrot-based funding for universities and colleges. First cuts in university budgets drove colleges out into the world market in search of fee-...
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Picky, coddled students? Make them read Beowulf
Is our culture dumbing down? There is a dominant view in this heated debate that those who complain are bitter about easier access for more people to higher education and to a culture that was...
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Figures withheld as child slaps the hand that feeds
The government has announced that there are to be league tables for local authority social services as there are for schools and hospitals. The news came just days after the Universities and Colleges...
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Part-time move merits praise
Let's get some perspective. For decades, anyone seriously concerned with more equitable access to higher education will have had two items at the top of their agenda: more places, and a system of...
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Eye of the beholder
Stuart Hay's zealous defence of publishers is just a trifle disingenuous about the status of authors ("A hard-nosed publisher writesI", THES, February 19). I wrote my first book in the mid-1970s and...
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Copyright clampdown
There is a lot of copyright in a video. People writing, music-making and saying original things. There is intellectual property everywhere you look. And now, just as it is getting practical to stream...
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No Jewish book ban
This university does not place restrictions on our staff (or those in partner colleges) as to the books and articles they may recommend ("QAA slates ban on Jewish books", THES, February 19). We do...
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Nurturing doubts
In Michael Rutter's review (THES, January 22), my book was called The Nature Assumption. The actual title is The Nurture Assumption. It is a small difference but an important one, because Professor...
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Elitism attacked
As the debate about "dumbing down" develops, it is worthwhile adding a challenge to the received orthodoxy underlying this concern. First, concern about differing academic standards has been around...
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Western misfitism
Ray Monk ("Woodstock of the mind", THES, February 12) is probably right that description of consciousness rather than a science of it will meet the "craving" (what a Buddhist word) for understanding...
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Credit conundrum
If I write a journal paper with a colleague in my department, we will get half the research assessment exercise credit each. If I write a paper with a colleague from another department or university...