Not only do we not know what the future holds; often we have little idea what the past holds. For Francis Bacon: "Time is like a river, which has brought down to us things light and puffed up, while...
Hidden victims of Stalinist suppression are revealed, finds Harold Shukman
Daniel Miller's Stuff brings together in one compact volume a deftly rewritten and engaging retrospective summary of 30 years of cultural anthropology carried out in the Caribbean, London, India and...
This work's narrow focus misses women's suffering and lack of redress, argues Rosemary Hunter
? = Review forthcomingCLASSICS- New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to AntinoosBy Christopher P. Jones, George Martin Lane professor of the Classics and of history, Harvard University. Harvard...
In the golden, privileged days when university students were the brightest and best, Eric Sotto's views about the training of lecturers may have had more validity ("You can lecture, but can you teach...
There is much to agree with in Eric Sotto's piece, yet he errs by conflating an evidence-based approach to teaching with gaining teaching qualifications, and I am unconvinced by his call to make them...
Three cheers for Eric Sotto. His article provides a refreshing change of focus from the research excellence framework and was an intelligent contribution to the debate about teacher training for...
In his letter last week, Adam Afriyie, the Conservative Shadow Science Minister, explains that when he said that ministers have the right to sack independent science advisers "because they don't like...
Constantine Sandis is to be applauded for his rejection of the notion that academics have an absolute right to free speech ("Free speech within reason", 21 January). Academic freedom is too important...
The manifestation of mushrooming wellbeing initiatives across the academic landscape may be rooted in a number of factors, and I applaud those colleagues who question their altruism ("Get happy, and...
Although the website for the Higher Education Funding Council for England says that our project, Creating Success through Wellbeing in Higher Education, received £174,000, which you report, the...
Members of the Abrahamic religions know that wellbeing initiatives in education are doomed to fail. Ecclesiastes 1:18 - "He who increases knowledge increases sorrow."Ian McNay, Professor emeritus,...
Hefce's proposal to "require the governing body to take steps to rectify the position" if it considers that the "accountable officer cannot be relied upon" could indeed lead to the enforced removal...
Your latest student satisfaction survey contains glaring methodological shortcomings ("It's all about them", 14 January). Most striking is the minute sample size (in our university's case, 0.16 per...