Where beagles share
Roger Brown (Letters, 14 February) attacks our independent schools with the usual charge of elitism and more especially damns them for spending money on beagle kennels. Recent research at the...
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Open to abuse? We do it to ourselves
Yet more catastrophic timidity from the UK’s universities, this time over open access (“Fool’s gold?”, 14 February). The system being proposed is one in which universities and academics will gain...
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Shine on, other diamonds
Regarding “Universities pull out of EU’s ‘unjustifiable’ U-Multirank” (News, 7 February).The antipathy of the League of European Research Universities towards the rankings system is hardly...
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Unequal in eyes of law
It is interesting to read that the University of Surrey has voted against “normalising” marks on its LLB course to ensure that fewer students fail despite pressure to do so “as the Law School is out...
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X marks the disrespect
A few years back I completed a master’s course. In the next few months I will have a paper published in Journal A based on my research project. My former supervisor, Dr X, is second author.As the...
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Cash converters
John Holmwood warns that firms with closed-door government access will turn state-funded public assets into private profit
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News in brief
Global University SummitLeaders shall speak unto leaders“Universities and economic growth” is the theme of this year’s Global University Summit, which will bring together politicians, business...
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From where I sit - 'Brexit'? It's cold outside
One old-time story of British attitudes to the European Union goes like this. It’s 1955. There is a meeting determining whether to create the European Economic Community. Six continental delegations...
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21 February 2013
Escape from limbo - To defeat the visa bureaucracy, the personal must become political
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Tales of student visa bureaucracy
The visa process can trap students in a costly Kafkaesque limbo. To improve life for foreign scholars, the sector should halt its failed lobbying over policy and focus on publicising the misery...
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Low-cost universities fail to fill ‘margin’ places
Coalition reveals ‘disturbing’ shortfall. David Matthews reports
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Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
The Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at Tate Modern reveals the seriousness behind the Pop artist’s irony, finds Alex Danchev
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The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
Shahidha Bari on Straw Dogs’ author’s new tricks
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THE podcast: 21 February 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanAre scruffy clothes a sign of intelligence? And will David Cameron’s visit to India benefit UK higher education? These are among the topics covered on this week’s issue...
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THE podcast: Chen Hong interview
Podcast Powered By PodbeanPhil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, meets Tsinghua University professor Chen Hong at the Association of International Education...