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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Film review: Hanna
A teenage girl assassin and out-of-control technology serve to amuse but also irritate, surmises Duncan Wu
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TV review: What's the Point of Forgiveness?
Gary Day finds that forgiveness can be a recreation of ourselves and of those whom have done us harm
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Campus round-up
University of OxfordLifeline for languageResearchers are in a race against time to document a dying language that is now spoken by only three people. Suriel Mofu, from the University of Oxford's...
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Odds and quads
If this shoe looks good enough to eat that is hardly surprising - it is made of cheese.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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28 April 2011
Old school - Universities, stuck in the past century, are failing today’s students
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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