Earlier this year, I attended a tertiary educators' training session in which we watched a 2006 Danish film about the changing nature of students - Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding,...
Tyrrell Burgess, an innovative educational thinker, has died.
We are writing to encourage all University and College Union members to consider carefully the reasons underpinning the union's calls for a dispute. We realise that, in comparison with the...
The University and College Union ballot rightly identifies redundancy as the primary threat facing academic staff and points to increased workload and harm to quality as the sure consequences. And...
The feature on the importance of the tutor-student relationship ("The personal touch", 7 May) was a reminder of Cardinal Newman's dictum that a university should be an alma mater, knowing her...
Students in Britain put in fewer hours partly because many now have to work part time to stay at university ("Brits study less than continental cousins", 30 April). I have to work 16 hours to...
Philip Esler is unfair to critics of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's impact agenda such as Peter Barry when he accuses them of taking no account of "the interests of taxpayers" ("We...
The gap between old and new universities is indeed closing ("The week in higher education", 7 May), but there are now five new universities in the top half of The Independent league table, the fourth...
Although there are differences evident between the UK and Holland ("From where I sit: low country, low standards", 23 April), Rod Aya's observations suggest a common set of social and cultural...
It was delightful to stumble upon a beautifully written celebration of the electric guitar placed between complaints about the research excellence framework, budget cuts and stories about strike...
James Alexander's entertaining article claims that Jimi Hendrix is the exception to the rule that unlike English guitarists, no Americans have "the right spirit, able to serve and transcend music at...
When it comes to the question "How long is a piece of string?" (Contents, 30 April; Letters, 7 May), the answer (with apologies to Sartre) is until such time as it no longer is.John Green, Stoke-on-...
As the blueprint for the RAE's replacement is fine-tuned, evolution rather than revolution looks set to be the hallmark of the research excellence framework. Zoe Corbyn reports on a work in progress
A gruelling inquisition or a friendly chat - PhD candidates' experiences of vivas can vary widely. Preparation is essential, writes Peter Geoghegan, but universities could do more to help, too
Quentin Skinner, a historian renowned for examining past ideas in pursuit of disconcerting truths about the present, has swapped Cambridge quads for the bustle of the Mile End Road. Fred Inglis...