Contested scores
As author of Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy (Books, 12 July), I thank John Jowett for the attention his review has drawn to it. I’m sorry he finds shortcomings and...
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Pastoral places
“Performing arts students ‘scared to report abuse’” (News, 19 July) focused on a survey by Equity, the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Musicians’ Union regarding the sexual harassment and...
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The basics of balls
Reading your article on the relative merits of the traditional lecture versus the new rival “active learning spaces” (“ Has the death of the lecture been greatly exaggerated? ”, News, 19 July), I was...
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Joint legal action is the only way to close the gender pay gap
Female academics should follow the lead of women in other sectors and pursue mass claims against their universities, says a Birkbeck scholar
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Millennials: the age of entitlement
While Vieno Vehko empathises with millennials’ burden of tuition debt, she also finds it hard to respect a group that neither reads critically nor takes responsibility for its learning
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Greek history contains some thrilling yarns
I read with interest your interview with Richard Clogg about his recent memoir, Greek to Me: A Memoir of Academic Life (“HE & Me”, 14 June). Clogg is a master at cataloguing intrigue, as he...
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Tweet relief
“The #good, the #bad and the #ugly” (Features, 12 July) highlights the benefits as well as distractions that social media hold for academics. A few months ago, I deleted my Twitter account and...
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Elusive enthusiasm
In “Richard Arum: US undergraduate education is declining and failing” (News, 11 July), Arum, dean of the University of California, Irvine’s School of Education, “blamed falling levels of independent...
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Those who can
The article “Mr Chips with everything?” (Features, 5 July) explored the relationship between research and teaching. When I was invited for an interview for an undergraduate place at University...
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Academia must prize mental health above all
Evidence that half the UK’s academics experience a damaging mental health burden (“Half of UK academics ‘suffer stress-linked mental health problems’”, News, 5 July, www.timeshighereducation.com) is...
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Entitled to the title
Marrisa Joseph finding her PhD and honorific “Dr” routinely ignored or worse (“I have earned the right to be called ‘Dr’”, Opinion, 5 July) recalls the recent experiences of historian Fern Riddell ...