The stupendous waves of globalisation are, the economic historians tell us, well over a century old, but their terrific riptides - swirling, contradictory, uncontrollable - demand unprecedented new...
This book tackles a large question in cosmology: Is the Universe designed for life? To which I am tempted to add my own query: is that question posed with sufficient clarity to inform rational...
No British scholar has done more than Bob Franklin, of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, to make the academic study of journalism relevant to journalists. This collection...
(J) = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob LawrenceBy Patricia Hills, professor of art history, Boston University. University of California Press, £34.95. ISBN...
Matthew Reisz weighs up the role of weighty tomes of literary reference in the digital age
Humboldt is unfashionable in our postcolonial age, but it’s time for a renaissance, says Jeremy Jennings
I wholeheartedly applaud your efforts to refocus the methodology for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ("Redrawing ranking rules for clarity, reliability and sense", 10 December)....
The latest Times Higher Education devoted an editorial and two articles to concerns about the proposal to include "impact" as a factor in assessing the quality of research and scholarship under the...
Alan Ryan has got it completely wrong ("Offing the cap", 17/24 December). The idea of tuition fees was originally sold to us as a way of permitting 50 per cent of all pupils leaving secondary school...
Is it very surprising that a study states that research-driven universities are just paying lip service to the recognition of good teaching ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December)? For...
Your article "Something rotten? Row over Wales' validation of 'fundamentalist' BAs" (10 December) raises some interesting questions about the Danish university system, theological training and not...
Sally Feldman may regret the passing of local newspapers, but if people wanted to read about "frying eggs on pavements, confronting noisy neighbours and tackling trespassing tree-huggers", local...
With all due respect to Jeremy Dibble ("Alternative sheep music", 17/24 December), it is hardly news that While Shepherds Watched their Flocks has been - and sometimes still is - sung to the tune of...
All I have to say to Robert Segal ("All apologies", 17/24 December) is that I'm sorry you feel that way.Stephen Kukureka, Worcester.
While very much in favour of the resistance to the impact agenda as any kind of rational measure of research, am I the only one who finds the term “curiosity-driven” research naive, self-defeating...