So how did Guantanamo become “the world’s most notorious prison”? Principally as a result of a Washington-created public-relations own goal. On 11 January 2002, the first group of 20 prisoners...
The bibliographies in today’s international relations texts rarely include anything published before about 1990, but there is one work still regularly listed and discussed that appeared as long ago...
Matthew Reisz meets reluctant Facebook darling Andy Field, the Harry Potter of the social sciences
Following the usual paeans of praise for academic independence in these pages, I would like to point out the unacknowledged administrative costs involved.There are four administrators to every doctor...
The subject of university governance is high on the agenda. It is clear to me that changes to increase the influence of lay members on governing councils instituted by the Higher Education Funding...
The letter from a group of 185 academics concerned about the way "voluntary" redundancies appear to be "engineered" raises an important point (Letters, 10 September). In the voluntary casework I do,...
The practice of awarding marks for attendance ("Thanks very much for coming: you shall be rewarded", 10 September) may offer more support for providing employers with a detailed breakdown of...
I enjoyed the feature on George Orwell written by my colleague at the University of Texas, Tom Palaima ("1984: it's coming", 3 September), but I would like to make one pointed clarification.Palaima...
What an unpopular chap Raphael Salkie is likely to be around the University of Oxford ("Strange death of Oxford linguistics", August). He begins his gracious, intelligent and even-tempered discussion...
There are many problems with what Richard Austen-Baker says about teaching in schools and universities (Letters, 10 September).First, the idea that school teaching is simply meant to "maximise...
The nursery that was closed in June at the University of the West of England was the smaller of two ("Union fights for campus creches", 10 September). It was situated in one of the smaller campuses...
Your news item states that the University of Nottingham's Samworth Academy is the first academy to be sponsored by a university ("Take them higher", 10 September). The Merchants' Academy, jointly...
You say that education suffers because teaching gets no respect (Leader, 10 September). This must change, and academics must start with themselves, you add. I find it lamentable that Times Higher...
Initial responses to my research on paedophilia originally led me to conclude that there is no consensus among academics on the harmfulness of adult sexual contact with children ("Paedophilia...
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