Information professionals in higher education spend a considerable amount of time teaching information literacy, either through group sessions or more often one-to-one at the enquiry desk in...
The explosive growth of science means that each successive century gets harder to sum up. There is no decent single-volume survey of 20th-century science, although at least one intrepid author is at...
Lucia Gurioli feels the heat in these eyewitness accounts of Italy's famous volcano
When considering the winners and losers of modernity it is tempting to see children as most definitely in the former camp. They not only enjoy unprecedented levels of legal protection but have reams...
The current brouhaha surrounding Lord Ashcroft and his non-domicile status should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he has made a valuable contribution to the field of education.The...
I feel I must write to say how depressing I found reading your latest Textbook Guide. The book entitled The 1960s: A Documentary Reader was classified under history. Am I really "history" at the age...
James Stanfield has come up with an interesting idea that universities should be expected to raise money locally, rather than receive it from the Treasury (a "public subsidy", as he calls it) ("...
Your article "Bournemouth academic's constructive dismissal claim upheld" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 26 February) has generated a great deal of comment.Several of the views expressed dwell on...
Harry Collins describes one of his eureka moments as the only time in his career when "I have run out into the corridor whooping (fully clothed, I should add)". His excitement was generated by...
Neal Curtis' article, "'Customer' isn't always right: market model could lead to disaster" (4 March), strikes me as a quaintly hysterical response to the need for universities to accept that they...
Why should University of Sheffield staff consider short weeks and unpaid annual leave to generate savings without knowing the outcome of national pay talks? ("Short weeks or unpaid leave proposed to...
Considering the attention devoted to it in the piece by Geoff Lucas ("Questions of context: low marks for crude admissions policies", 28 January), the "contexting" of university applications and...
Bahram Bekhradnia suggests that we don't give preferential treatment to state school applicants over independent ones because we are terrified of the Daily Mail ("Mind the gap").The charge shows how...
Your article on bureaucracy in higher education, "Audit overload" (4 March), mentions academics "muttering" about the amount of paperwork they have to do. I'm afraid that muttering is not a...
A leading literary critic described by an admirer as "a bit of an oddball" who was "not afraid to be an original thinker" has died.David Musselwhite was born on 3 December 1940 and graduated in...