This is a distinctive and courageous book. Mike Hulme is a geographer and climate modeller, a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor of climate change at...
As insecurity increasingly defines work, Rosalind Gill glimpses the emerging global 'precariat'
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World HistoryBy Robert Finlay, professor of history, University of Arkansas. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
As someone whose formal higher education was entirely part-time, I'm sure that Lord Mandelson's enthusiasm for the part-time option is founded more on economic expediency than his own student...
Asking Steven Rose to review a book on evolutionary anthropology is about as likely to deliver balance as sending Richard Dawkins a theology primer ("What's in a number?" 25 February). It makes...
I have two memories of delightful English-French translation ("Words with no meaning", 18 February). One was in an article based on a conference paper, where I had quoted Mary Evans' term, "...
I was surprised that John Haldane's lecture on the relative importance of teaching against research received no support in last week's Letters pages ("Teaching is the highest purpose, argues thinker...
The scale and implications of the changes under way in higher education do not seem to have fully registered with the academy. In many universities, the situation at the chalk face, or rather the...
Outstanding teaching is needed if UK universities are to compete in a global market. League tables and the National Student Survey have drawn attention to learning and teaching and helped to create...
Gloom about the Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) must be seen in light of their contribution to their subject areas.The Higher Education Funding Council for England's review of...
It was disappointing to see another story with a limited appreciation of the educational and pedagogic uses of podcasting ("Podcasts: enhancing or replacing normal lectures", 25 February). The...
We write to protest the slashing of funds for Black History Month by the London Mayor. In 2009, Boris Johnson praised BHM for its vital work in educating people about the "historical role and the...
I was surprised to see poor attendance and the associated failures in assessment being offered as reasons to restrict access to higher education ("Wise up to the naked truth", 25 February). This...
I am not surprised by the questions raised by your article "Pressure grows on national bargaining" (25 February). Many of us in human resources have been warning about this for many years: during the...
Why are some vice-chancellors turning their backs on national bargaining? Following a derisory pay "settlement", we see that London South Bank University may withhold the 0.5 per cent increase. In...