Scholarship stifled by admin
David Cannadine is right to point to the "debilitating combination of inadequate resources and excessive bureaucracy" in higher education as "lethal" to the making and sustaining of a creative...
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Scholarship stifled by admin
David Cannadine's proposal for a University of Bloomsbury is entirely wrong-headed. Birkbeck and University College London do indeed have strong international reputations in the humanities. They also...
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Scholarship stifled by admin
There is no real harm in playing Monopoly with the University of London, as David Cannadine does. But at least two of the pieces on his board - the Senate House Library and the institutes - have been...
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Canon fire
Antony Easthope ("Englit must transform itself", THES, April 16) sounds both bizarrely anachronistic and inconsistent. How many higher education departments, worldwide, now use the "Englit" label -...
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Canon fire
So English "must transform itself"? Where has Antony Easthope been hiding for the past ten (20) years? A survey of the undergraduate curriculum by the Council for College and University English last...
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Canon fire
"Whatever Hamlet meant in 1603 it meant something different to Dr Johnson, to Freud and to us. It will mean something different in future." Did Hamlet really have one uniform meaning in 1603, or for...
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Unhealthy trend
While it is commendable that more higher education students should go to further education colleges ("Cinderella steps out", THES, April 16), FE colleges do not have the tradition, or culture, of...
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We must deny bullies a pulpit
Why is bullying so prevalent in higher education and how can we deal with it? Cary Cooper reports. Workplace bullying is a widespread problem. When the Trades Union Congress set up a telephone hot-...
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Make work part of study
Every student, no matter their degree, ought to undertake work experience,says David Blunkett. Students today are increasingly applying for modern vocational courses, those related to information and...
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Cutting edge
Meteorites are fragments of history that can tell us about the beginnings of life itself I work at the Natural History Museum, leading a team of seven scientists, including two students, who...
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A Wellcome home?
A bitter battle is being fought in Cambridge over plans to expand the Wellcome Trust's genome research centre. Kam Patel looks at the possible outcomes and the messages they will send In a few months...
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Turning grey matter into green stuff
This week, The THES joins forces with the Royal Institution to host 'Making Money from Ideas'. Here, panel chairmen David Thomas, David Auckland and John Ashworth discuss some key issues affecting...
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The nose job that helps you breath more easily
An air pollution monitor small enough to wear on the wrist could be built using a new technique developed by physicists at the University of Birmingham. The device could alert asthmatics to traffic...
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Signing up for the university of life
Putting yourself at the mercy of those you are trying to study may not sound an entirely sensible idea, but Ruth Emond, a teaching fellow from Stirling University's applied social science department...
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New uni bucks decline
Applications for places at De Montfort University are up 18 per cent over the corresponding date last year, the largest percentage rise for any university. It is followed by Warwick, Aston and...