Rebuild housing research
A great deal is wrong with university research in the UK on housing ("Housing policies 'impose' a middle-class makeover", 28 May).Your report centres on controversy between researchers at Manchester...
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Poetry and politics
One of the saddest aspects of the messy business over the failure to appoint a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford is that a woman and a black man have "cancelled each other out". This...
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Free speech and freedom
Writing almost 40 years ago, at a time when free speech and the struggle for liberty in wider society was a reality, Anthony Arblaster commented that "academic freedom" was "a rather pompous term for...
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Facing unpalatable facts
I was disappointed to see Times Higher Education's record of scholarly reviewing marred by Sian Moore. Her account of Gary Daniels and John McIlroy's edited collection Trade Unions in a Neoliberal...
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Height of practicality
In his article on dangerous ideas ("A kind of intellectual cancer", 21 May) Alec Ryrie proposes a thought experiment in which he asks "if we found a cheap and effective way to scrub greenhouse gases...
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Dubious statistical merit
In "Persecution (is) complex" (21 May), you cite a University and College Union survey that placed our university top of a "league table" for staff complaining of bullying. This was based on a mere...
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Comedy double act
I was surprised to see so much space given to the comments of Roger Brown and Geoffrey Alderman ("Watchdog makes case for a guard with teeth, but will it have the bite?", 28 May), who are beginning...
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Off Piste: Jogging the memory
For Bob Blaisdell, running sharpens the senses and allows him to be perfectly in the moment. It is also a physical mnemonic, redolent of previous routes the world over
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Being a humble servant to business will be a disaster for everyone
By insisting our universities’ sole role is to fire the economy, we have lost sight of their more civilising purpose, says Thomas Docherty
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From where I sit - The figures behind discrimination
While women's participation in higher education and research is usually measured through quantitative data, it is qualitatively different to look at them through individual lives.An insight into this...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Value is no cause for complaint
Students have to see that higher education is worth far more than what they pay in tuition fees and that it must be earned
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Fathers can juggle, too
Children and a job - men are starting to cope, writes Sally Feldman
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University of Huddersfield - No giggling at the back
Laughter and humour are the subjects of an international conference to be held later this month at the University of Huddersfield. The two-day conference, hosted by Huddersfield's English department...
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University of Aberdeen - Legacy of achievements
A medical physicist whose team helped to transform medical imaging technology has donated his entire collection of honours to a historic medical society at the University of Aberdeen. John Mallard,...