Work-to-rule is way forward
We must hope that the unfair and useless response of hitting the students through strikes and assessment boycotts, trotted out by the sample of University and College Union presidents and chairs in...
We must hope that the unfair and useless response of hitting the students through strikes and assessment boycotts, trotted out by the sample of University and College Union presidents and chairs in...
As a card-carrying member of the attention-deficit generation, at least as far as novels are concerned, the article by Valerie Sanders ("Docked tales", 26 May) reinforced a long-held view about...
Are others as concerned as I am about the anonymity of reporting on manuscript submissions to publishers and applications to funding bodies? Some of us may be somewhat protected by longevity, if...
I read with interest your article "School swallows merger medicine" (19 May).Staff who voted against the proposal to merge the School of Pharmacy with University College London do well to be wary....
Nearly 4,000 signatories have backed a petition calling on the Arts and Humanities Research Council to remove the "Big Society" from its Delivery Plan for strategic research funding with immediate...
Tim Luckhurst seems to miss the distinction between self-publishing and self-financed publishing ("Everyman's library of failure", 26 May).Both can be good ways of reaching small, specialist...
Nicholas Beyts clearly made a strong impression on your letters editor, to the extent that his missive about students and parents becoming shareholders in the academy ("A share of learning", 12 May)...
As the government continues to cast around for ideas to rescue its floundering plans for higher education, I am surprised it has not spotted the obvious solution: let the GPs sort it out. If they can...
I was flicking through the magazine when I came across what seemed to be a new sex advice column. For there, in bold type, it said: "Keep it up with the help of a yearly check" (26 May).I read on but...
With the University of Poppleton and other institutions frantically looking to reduce costs and re-engineer back-office and student-facing support via shared services, will the next Times Higher...

Computers have not liberated us, Gary Day learns, but rather locked us in a corporate capitalist world

Duncan Wu finds irony and charm in the camped-up tale of a 1970s trophy wife's empowerment

Although he is known to many as the performer of the memorable piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles' Penny Lane, David Mason will be remembered by those who knew him as "a real gentleman" who cared...

Momentum gathers behind efforts to reduce or ban online access during lectures. Jon Marcus reports
Yes, says Sally Feldman, of Tracey Emin's display of her own menstrual fluids