Winter is coming
‘Lucky’ Australia is feeling a rather British chill in the air, says Malcolm Gillies
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5 April 2012
Solitary course - The bill of fare for today’s ‘ideal’ scholar
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Leader: Why must so many go it alone?
Pursuit of an academic career forces many scholars to make personal sacrifices that are bad for them and for the profession
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Odds and quads
These formidable Victorian women all appear in a photograph album which forms part of the archives of the Association of Head Mistresses (AHM), now held in the Modern Records Centre at the University...
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Resetting the compass
Resourceful academies in the global South and East have much to teach the ‘developed’ North and West, Sir David Watson observes
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The three Rs: resources, research and Robin Hood
R&D and philanthropy are at the heart of a Turkish university’s ambitious plans. Matthew Reisz reports
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Continental tours for 'captive' UK audience
Russell Group institutions may be pressing the government for higher fees, as Roger Brown contends ("Victors and spoils", 29 March). If so, they do not recognise the realities of the international...
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Members first, not factions
Regarding "No mandate for change" (Letters, 22 March): we are the current and next chairs of the University and College Union's further education committee and the chair of its higher education...
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Debased currency
The article on "post-autistic economics" in Germany ("Appliance of the dismal science", 29 March) describes the use of the term "autistic" in this context as "controversial", but it is worse than...
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Join the club
Times Higher Education singles out two recent developments as being significant for the future of "sciart": Cern's artists-in-residence programme and the MA in art and science at Central Saint...
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Genius envy
In her piece about the way in which academics allow their creativity to be controlled by unimaginative "bean counters" ("Creative vs accounting", 22 March), Amanda Goodall wonders how this hijack...
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Spirit level of the age
Congratulations to Sally Feldman for her spirited defence of media studies from the "vituperative attacks" of a "self-loathing" media ("Painful reflection", 22 March).Her argument is especially valid...
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Take with a pinch of salt
Your report that researchers at the University of Aberdeen have discovered how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) actually works to relieve severe psychological depression is to be welcomed ("Shock...
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All intents and purposes
Robert Barton has the strange blindness to brute facts that afflicts other neuro-reductionists ("Evolutionary battleground", Letters, 29 March). As Steven Rose points out, there is more to a human...
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Head of Sciences Po found dead in New York hotel
Richard Descoings, the head of the Paris institution Sciences Po and one of the leading reformers in French higher education, has been found dead in a New York hotel room.