Excellence - but those missing out don't see it that way
Germany's elite programme has some Länder up in arms. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Taking the plunge
Uclan's new overseas campuses are a bold but carefully planned part of its expansion, maintains Malcolm McVicar
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A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack
David Willetts defends the government's higher education policies against Stefan Collini's accusations of reductionist consumerism
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It takes all sorts
Universities must embrace diversity to better serve the needs of the nation and local communities, argues Eric Thomas
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Diary
CardiffA Provincial LifeFirst published (in censored form) in 1896, Anton Chekhov's story My Life: The Story of a Provincial is one of his longest and most openly political. At its heart is a...
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The Pick - WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012
WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012Southbank Centre, London, 6-11 MarchFrom the co-founder of Mumsnet to a woman determined to reform India's worst prison, by way of activists, astrophysicists,...
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'We know nothing' - QAA
"Hands off the Quality Assurance Agency."That was the robust response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the news that the QAA has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of 63 out of...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (1 of 4)
The controversy over Les Ebdon's appointment as director of the Office for Fair Access has obscured the most important question: what is Offa for?For 2012 entry, it has collected about 0 access...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (2 of 4)
The debate around the appointment of the next director of fair access risks diverting attention from the successful efforts of all universities and colleges to widen access to higher education....
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Clear thought about access lost in row (3 of 4)
Might journalistic propriety have been better served in last week's issue by a bracketed reference, latched in place somewhere among the flurry of pieces on and opinions about Les Ebdon, to the fact...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (4 of 4)
Mike Goldstein's extravagant encomium for Les Ebdon misses the point (Letters, 23 February). Ebdon is on record as advocating that some students should be admitted to universities by having their A-...
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Consent agenda
The story of the Boston College subpoenas is a complicated one and understandably THE's account is incomplete ("Law and academy clash in the long shadow of the gun", 16 February). For instance, the...
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If it ain't broke, don't bin it
Timothy Gowers recently wrote about his decision not to work with Elsevier and his wish for an alternative to the academic journal as a tool for evaluating, sharing and preserving scholarship ("...
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Gift of tongues freely taken
"Arts and humanities offer Hobson's choice" (23 February) paints a gloomy and misleading picture of the health of modern languages in UK universities. The University and College Union survey Choice...
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Film review: Khodorkovsky
A film about Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is surprising in its frankness, says Philip Dodd