This is a depressing book. Not because it's badly written or ill-organised - quite the reverse - but because it records, in often numbing detail, how one of the most vibrant cinematic cultures of the...
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...
Your editorial was right to emphasise the huge amount of support that academics receive from departmental and university administrative teams ("Accidental, but also elemental", 25 March). All British...
As one of the "accidental administrators" referred to in "Career strategies" (25 March), perhaps I am fated to agree with many of the sentiments at its core. But I am more uneasy with the article's...
"The silenced saltire", Tom Gallagher's analysis of Scotland's political culture, is spot on (25 March). Devolution promised a more open, democratic and accountable society, but despite some...
Institution-specific passwords for online access to scholarly journals are neither technologically necessary nor financially defensible. They blatantly undermine university researchers' traditional...
"Engage the selfish gene" (18 March), which discussed how public engagement can boost research careers, referred to "the lack of quantitative data on the topic".In fact, there have been two...
On behalf of the board of management at the Kingston City Group (KCG) consortium, I write to correct some misunderstandings that appear to have arisen with respect to our part in the concerns at...
I am inordinately proud of the fact that I went to the University of Exeter, and I consider that its vice-chancellor, Steve Smith, has two excellent points in his favour: his first name (although the...
In his letter last week, Robert Poole argues that "we need other grounds for judging the likelihood of life occurring elsewhere in the Universe" than mere probability ("Sample of one", 25 March). But...
Why did Times Higher Education think it appropriate to announce a story about Germany providing extraordinary support to its students studying abroad as "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles" (...
What a hoot to see you've introduced a new satirical column in THE ("Tenure - nirvana for the lazy", 18 March). Suresh Goyal's musings on the academy as nirvana had my colleagues and me howling with...
S.K. Goyal does not work more than "35 hours per week" and is "one of the hard workers"? I wonder if his colleagues agree. I can't recall the last time I worked only 35 hours in a week - including...
A painter who helped to steer the major transformations of post-war British arts education has died.Bernard Gay was born in Exmouth on 11 April 1921 and left school at the age of 14 to join the...
Yes, it's hippity-hop-hurrah for this year's Easter bunny - our very own vice-chancellor, seen here celebrating his record-breaking third place in the newly published league table of vice-chancellors...