28 April 2011
Old school - Universities, stuck in the past century, are failing today’s students
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Leader: Wise up to the modern world
To succeed in the 21st century, graduates will need much more than a narrow range of skills offered by an outdated academy
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Keep death studies off the critical list
At a time when non-science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are campaigning against budgetary cuts, cross-disciplinary research risks being overlooked. Who owns and will...
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Feedback matters
While Thomas Docherty is probably correct in thinking that the "fetishisation" of contact hours glosses over issues relating to the quality of that contact, he does not face up to students' genuine...
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Not enough days in the week
Jon Nixon (Letters, 7 April) asks why we don't see our personal tutees on a weekly basis. He suggests we are too busy researching to do our job as teachers. As a lecturer in a hard-working school...
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Impact joke is on us
Two letters on research impact make for interesting reading ("Corrosive impact merits only dismissal", 14 April). They also suggest that the age of innocence is not dead, and that Times Higher...
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Misleading mechanism
Your article, "Hesa shows student body to be broader and stronger" (7 April), showed Birkbeck, University of London listed among those universities with the highest dropout rates for 2008-09. These...
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Epic bias
In her interesting take on The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind (21 April), Camilla Power says that I regard the warrior society of the Iron Age as the hominid environment of...
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Writers blocked
We write to express our dismay and bewilderment at the Arts Council's removal of funding from the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE).In recent years, NAWE, as the subject association...
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Lacking resources
While browsing the shortlists for the THE Leadership and Management Awards ("The teams setting the pace in race for leading honours", 14 April), it was heartening to see that the nominations for the...
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Majority of final-years would have baulked at £9K hurdle: survey
Over half of current final-year students would not have gone to university if they had faced tuition fees of £9,000 a year, according to a new study.
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Accommodating disability: one size doesn’t fit all
Back in the summer of 2005, I spent a lot of time travelling back and forth to visit the university I was to join in September. I had already had a good look at the place, and worked out all the...
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Inside Higher Ed: Equal time for ‘traditional values’
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aquaculture cuts at Stirling net one-day walkout
Lecturers at the University of Stirling are due to strike on 26 April in a dispute over job losses.
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Spin cycle: 11 research-intensives foster over half of spin-outs in past decade
A group of 11 universities has produced more than half of all the spin-off companies to have been launched by higher education institutions in the past 10 years, according to new figures.