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We do not agree with all the arguments advanced by Darrel Ince, but it is clear that much has changed in recent months ("Pensions are safe if we don't stop working", 30 September). The Universities...
We do not agree with all the arguments advanced by Darrel Ince, but it is clear that much has changed in recent months ("Pensions are safe if we don't stop working", 30 September). The Universities...
One need not cross the Atlantic for empirical evidence that "science versus religion" is a media-driven false opposition ("The dogma delusion", 23 September). Nor should there be surprise that a...
It seems strange for your editorial to evoke a battlefront between religion and secularism in universities while also drawing into the debate John Henry Newman ("The space for a spirit to know", 23...
So Archbishop Stephen Hawking has pontificated that God is not necessary to explain the Universe. He asks us to believe that the laws of physicists can now be enshrined in M-Theory - a Theory of...
Your report "Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 1 October) prompted comments online about institutions wasting money resisting employment...
Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, defends a "wide-ranging" higher educational policy ("Cultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation?", timeshighereducation....

The vice-chancellor who steered the University of Sydney through the era of student radicalism has died.Bruce Williams, the son of a clergyman, was born on 10 January 1919 in Victoria, Australia,...

"Whatever next?" That was the startled response of Nancy Harbinger, our Deputy Director of Student Experience, to the new auditing plans unveiled by the Quality Assurance Agency.Under the proposals,...
I was a little surprised to learn that Qi Yu, who graduated in June from Fudan University's School of Journalism, had chosen to work for a Hangzhou-based newspaper, The Youth Times.This talented...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A workshop aims to bring design to bear on increasingly complex scientific information. Neha Popat reports
Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others
Felipe Fernández-Armesto deplores scholarly reviewing's tarnished golden rule
ASEAN nations ranked by total citationsData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpactHighly cited papers%...
The UK's longest graffiti mural has been painted on to the building-site hoardings surrounding a new environmentally sustainable student-accommodation development. Street artist Mohammed Ali spent...