A review of medical research regulation has been criticised for failing to acknowledge social scientists' concerns about excessive red tape.An Academy of Medical Sciences report, released last week,...
EU statute for Europe's academy needed to arrest economic decline. Hannah Fearn reports
Claims that overseas-recruitment agents should be "eliminated" have provoked anger from a US body developing standards of ethical practice in the area.In an interview with Times Higher Education,...
British scholars rate leaders of the free world: George W. Bush also ran. Matthew Reisz reports
Philip G. Altbach and Wanhua Ma assess China's initiatives to persuade its academics working abroad to bring their expertise back
The letter by the editors of the Association of Business Schools' Academic Journal Quality Guide ("Journal rankings help define, not distort", 6 January) in response to the opinion piece by Dennis...
As a struggling "new researcher" who has been encouraged by an experienced academic like Dennis Tourish (Letters, 13 January), I support his sentiments about the tyranny of journal rankings.Here is a...
In Phil Baty's leading article "Missions trail leads to success" (13 January), the case for diversification and differentiation was made strongly with the warning: "Universities that fail to...
Your feature "Contravene or intervene?" (6 January) gives an insightful overview of the complex problems that universities face in dealing with extremism and the potential terrorist "radicalisation"...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto suggests that Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, is "wasting" the country's resources ("Lack of laughter is no joke", 6 January). Research by the Organisation for Economic...
The government is asking a generation of students to regard university study as a financial investment. Tuition fees of £9,000 a year are, apparently, an acceptable price to pay for a better - read...
Your article "Campus survey of religion is biased, secularists charge" (13 January) concluded with a response from the Equality Challenge Unit that implicitly accused me of discrimination: "......
Postgraduate taught degrees may require amendment for a wide range of reasons, but the key point of the article "Taught postgraduate degrees may soon be preserve of the rich" (13 January) should...
"Plateaued at the bottom of the canyon"? ("Speed daters try luck in the salon", 13 January). Still, at least Rosemary Feal is chief executive of the Modern Language Association and not the Geography...
A Conservative MP has attacked the University and College Union for supporting “violent and illegal protest” in a move described by the union as a smear ahead of a key Commons vote.