I thought it was hilarious that, in an article on the progress being made by Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at Mansfield College to promote fair access to the University of Oxford ("For fair access,...
I notice that whenever people rush to declare what Christianity has done for us and to proclaim the West's historical debt to it, they tend to don rather rosy glasses.R. Iestyn Daniel (Letters, 15...
R. Iestyn Daniel is arguably right to assert that the "West" owes a historical debt to Christianity.However, he spins a Eurocentric, teleological historical narrative when he declares that...
The findings of the Equality Challenge Unit's report that you cover under the headline "76% white and male? That's today's UK professoriate" (15 December) should be no surprise to anyone. There have...
You report that 76 per cent of UK professors are white men. Unfortunately, that is not surprising. Indeed, it really understates the problem because in addition, very few of them have beards, either...
I worked with Gillian Radcliffe, who recently resigned as head of communications at the London College of Communication ("PR chief's parting shot cites LCC head's 'unfair' management style", 15...
The picture of Lieutenant General George Francis Milne's desk, embellished with artefacts of death and destruction (Odds and Quads, 15 December), made me wonder whether a (slight mis)-quote of the...
Does every university need a bookshop? Should universities encourage booksellers to locate their enterprises on the campus?These are the questions raised by the sudden closure of Blackwell's bookshop...
The suggestion that Pearson's apparent interest in acquiring the College of Law (The Week in Higher Education, 15 December) might cause the state-funded sector to "...feel like wildebeest about to...
It is good to see the Office for Fair Access working hard to widen participation in...Offa.Tom Franklin, Tom Franklin Consulting
Baroness Blackstone is rightly concerned about the social filtering going on in UK higher education ("Super-selection creates a monoculture that does not benefit society", 15 December). It is...
The vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England has been elected as the new chair of the University Alliance as the mission group expands its membership to 24 institutions.
The funding settlement for Scottish universities for the next academic year has been welcomed by Universities Scotland and the National Union of Students.
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
Welsh universities must merge if they are to be sustainable, the minister for education has reaffirmed.