When tectonic plates of knowledge collide 3
"More light, less heat: institutions look to strengthen lines of communication about religious issues on campus" (23 September) discusses a number of practical issues for higher education...
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Islands worth the streams 1
Dame Nancy Rothwell's argument is not surprising ("Islands of excellence should not drain funding streams", 16 September). Like other Russell Group universities that have always taken the largest...
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Islands worth the streams 2
I have been following the "islands of excellence" discussion with some interest. In essence, there seems to be an objection to the centres of research excellence springing up across the UK, as...
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Egalitarian mix
In her review of my book Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths (16 September), Marnia Lazreg makes some egregious misrepresentations. First, nowhere do I perceive Muslims as being beyond the...
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NSS result: unsatisfactory
We discover from the National Student Survey that the University of Brighton is the best place in the UK to do philosophy or philosophy and history. As tutors in the humanities here, we should be...
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Monarchs in the mirror
Clive Bloom argues that "the Tudors provide a dream of origination and harmony" ("The six wives and nine lives of Henry VIII", 23 September). He is right in that Tudor history has long provided us...
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30 September 2010
XX discrimination - Women’s underachievement in science is due to culture, not biology, and it’s in our power to change that
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Revamped US research PhD rankings cause bewilderment
A long-awaited analysis of the state of US research programmes has resulted in controversy after it arrived three years late and produced a novel form of ranking.
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Little substance behind Scots’ complaints
Dozens of complaints were lodged against universities with the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman last year but few were upheld, a new report reveals.
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Fees must rocket to cover teaching funding cuts, says UUK head
Tuition fees may need to rise to more than £7,000 a year to compensate universities for the cuts in teaching funding being considered by the coalition government, the president of Universities UK has...
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Labour accuses coalition of ‘pulling up the drawbridge’ on the next generation
The coalition government has been criticised by Labour’s shadow business secretary for attacking its goal of widening participation in higher education.
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Inside Higher Ed: Israel, South Africa and academic boycotts
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Great versus Good: scholar vindicated in banishment battle
Botswana’s expulsion of academic flouted African Charter, says ruling. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Is the Pope a Catholic?
In the wake of Benedict XVI’s British visit, Robert Segal deconstructs the Pope’s protestations about the potency of religion
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Book of the Week: A Journey
Five wars, three terms, one unpalatable truth: Alex Danchev interrogates the great persuader's mock-demotic attempts to defend the indefensible