The week in books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin, senior research professor in the Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University. Bloomsbury, £25.00, ISBN 9780747594765"Gabriel Garcia...
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Book of the week: The Earth after Us
We will leave behind just a small footprint, learns Michael Benton
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Published this week
FILM STUDIES- A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and FilmBy Caroline Bainbridge, reader in visual culture, Roehampton University. Palgrave Macmillan, £50.00. ISBN 9780230553484Drawing on the...
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From where I sit - A table for continental tastes
A common attitude to league tables of international universities was summed up by Valerie Pecresse, France's Higher Education Minister, when she stammered in fury last February that the problem with...
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Vice-Chancellor will replace Kant
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has enthusiastically backed the recent assertion by Sheila Gupta, Human Resources Director at the University of Edinburgh, that it is vital...
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Who funds equal access?
Sally Feldman says the responsibility for financing disabled students is unclear
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Leader: A suitable subject for teaching?
If alternative medicine can't produce scientific evidence of its efficacy, should universities be offering courses in it?An estimated 20 per cent of the UK population uses complementary and...
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John Maxwell Turner, OBE, 1937-2008
John Maxwell Turner, OBE, long-serving vice-principal of what is now Writtle College, has died.Mr Turner was born in Huddersfield on 5 June 1937 to Dorothy and Max Duncan Turner, an architect. He was...
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Fanning flames of international debate
Sir Drummond Bone seems to think that the criticism that UK higher education institutions recruit overseas students just for the money is the result of a very small fire giving off rather a lot of...
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Little to fear from FE Bill
It was with interest I read your feature about further education colleges gaining the ability under the Further Education and Training Bill to award their own foundation degrees ("Fight or flight",...
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Spot the sporting myths
Reading Robert A. Segal's Off Piste article ("Life and sport: a world apart", October 23) was like sitting through my first-year sociology of sport seminar in week one, "Myths and misconceptions"....
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More research needed
I noticed a report of a presentation by Miriam David at a seminar of the Helena Kennedy Foundation ("MPs question credibility of 14-19 diplomas", 9 October). At this she reported the results of her...
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Lazy Hefce's easy way out
The Higher Education Funding Council for England confuses employability with graduate employment rates in its latest conjecture about the value of a graduate employment indicator ("Hefce moots...
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Dumb numbers 1
Is it possible to argue that the higher proportion of firsts being awarded now doesn't mean that someone who scraped a first this year wouldn't have got one 30 years ago (Leader, 23 October)?To argue...
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Dumb numbers 2
One place where standards obviously are falling is the statistics department of Times Higher Education. How can you report ("Keep it stupid, simple", 23 October) survey results from about 500 readers...