Precautionary principle
When someone of Martha Nussbaum's pedigree speaks publicly about a forthcoming educational and political crisis, we had better take notice ("World crisis in humanities, not many hurt", 21 October). I...
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'Academy' untoward
Am I the only long-time reader of Times Higher Education who finds the use of "the academy" to mean universities or the higher education system irritating? It is difficult to believe that it is so...
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Undivided attention
I was most surprised to read that in the UK, the American Civil War "is not at the centre of a single undergraduate course" ("Blues and Greys in the UK", 28 October). As it happens, my second-year...
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What do we say on the tin?
In competitive times, it's hard to avoid hype in a prospectus, says Tim Birkhead
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From where I sit - Mass education: the good points
I wonder what university teaching will look like in, say, 10 years?Will the age-old system continue, in which a lecturer pontificates from a lectern for an hour or two and tutors of varying ability...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence - Freeze won't stop bleeding
Willetts vaunts flat-cash victory for science, but research councils still face operating-budget cuts. Paul Jump reports
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Simulation software claimed to predict effect of management choices on ranking position
Any doubts that world university rankings are influencing institutions’ strategic thinking are likely to be dispelled by news that academics in Taiwan have developed a tool that predicts the outcome...
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Leader: Time for a return to entry duty?
Universities have for some time left A levels to others, but they may soon find themselves driven to reassert control
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Top nations in neuroscience and behaviour
Top nations in neuroscience and behaviourData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England24,009 600,942 25.032...
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Outcry over Scottish call for graduate contributions
Unions want the employer to bear the financial burden, not the student. Hannah Fearn reports
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Research profiling puts UCU noses out of joint
The University and College Union has condemned the University of Manchester's decision to repeat an exercise that assigns numerical scores to staff on the basis of their research output.Manchester...
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News in brief
RedundanciesLancaster loses pay-off appealLancaster University has lost an appeal to overturn a ruling that it pay 60 days' salary to a group of employees whose fixed-term contracts were not renewed...
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Time to shelve the book habit
Think digitally and steer academics away from their 'cravings', librarians are told. Hannah Fearn writes
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University of Birmingham - Star performers
Scientists have been measuring stars by monitoring their "singing ability". Researchers at the University of Birmingham have observed the natural pulse of the light waves emitted by stars and...