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Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.

Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.
Helen Hockx-Yu, head of web archiving at the British Library, comments that it is "about time that the measures needed to implement rules for the legal deposit of web publications are put into place...
What an extraordinarily unpleasant letter from David Marsland ("A conspiracy against academic freedom", 1 September).The main objection of the historians to which he refers to David Starkey's...
The BBC should surely be praised rather than blamed for inviting David Starkey to appear on their shows. As well as being its token non-leftist, his credentials as a historian can hardly be doubted....
If you were to believe some parts of the academy, you would think that the National Student Survey is widely viewed as a positive force, providing useful information to both prospective students and...
I write to dissociate the Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service in the strongest possible terms from any suggestion that we consider the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher...
Upon opening last week's copy of Times Higher Education, I flicked to the Letters pages eager to read the undoubted responses to the plethora of articles on equality and diversity in the 25 August...
Jeremy Black deplores the grandiose claims routinely made by academic book blurbs ("Greatest story ever told", 1 September), but this is just one instance of the boasting that now echoes through so...
Michael Scott, vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University, claims his institution is being brave and bold in having a "lower-cost, highly vocational" university education that will be "open to all" ("'...
I don't think I would have gone into science had I not been influenced by gender programming via the many exciting ranges of scientist action figure toys ("Where is Physics Barbie?", 25 August).Ultra...
I was most amused to read David Willetts' comments that it should be possible for someone to "rent an office block and say you could study here for five key vocational qualifications" (The week in...
"Interviews with Indian villagers have cast doubt on whether wealth is the best measure of poverty" (Campus round-up, 1 September): I think the researchers actually found that lack of wealth was a...
Research that suggests university enrolment could fall by at least 5 per cent due to higher tuition fees has been seized upon by the National Union of Students as a “stark warning” that the...
Physics and engineering academics are having to teach students who are unprepared for their courses because of “a gap in knowledge” on maths, the Institute of Physics has warned.
The UK’s only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between £12,000 and £...