Students from poorer families in America could find it easier to access higher education thanks to a new funding initiative devised by MBA student Scott Patterson, based at the University of Oxford's...
As ever, my old friend Kevin Sharpe in his opinion article harks back to a non-existent golden age of academia ("A lighter weight of paper", 28 August).A recent perusal of several PhDs published in...
Kevin Sharpe asserts that the requirement for PhDs to make an original contribution to knowledge "has gone even from elite universities" and is being replaced "in many institutions" with a need to...
I read with amusement, interest and a degree of recognition William Burns' opinion article ("Ditch the island mentality", 4 September).However, I have two objections to make. The first has to do with...
Your article "Finances top list of threats to the health of UK sector" (4 September) includes the assertion from Grant Thornton that for universities, "pay is somewhere between 60 and 70 per cent of...
In his work on Jungian individual difference, the psychologist David Keirsey posited two kinds of "ideas" people: intuitive thinking types, who value logic-based ideas, and intuitive feeling types,...
Contributions to the recent debate on university standards have characterised the Government's current view as being that the function of higher education is principally to prepare students for the...
I was interested in Anthony Glees' revelation about the apparent "left-of-centre to Marxist consensus" in education ("Culture in the state-funded sector condones failure, claims professor", 4...
Alistair Duff justifies singling out the United States for criticism for its use of illegal interrogation techniques in the War on Terror because he claims that no other Western country has used...
Paul Seedhouse (Letters, 4 September) says that I should not write about spelling because I am not a specialist in this area and because no coherent principles were applied to what I said on this...
While I agree with some of the sentiments Jonathan Taylor expressed about not colonising the past with our current preoccupations ("Progressively benighted", 14 August), I have to take issue with his...
Police are investigating an allegation of race hate said to have occurred at a National Union of Students (NUS) training seminar at the University of York. The Yorkshire Post reported that a sign...
Mules, hybrids of donkeys and horses, are smarter than either of their parent species, according to an intelligence test involving identification of the symbols on food buckets. Psychologist Britta...
Staff at the University of Central Lancashire are lamenting the loss of a common room where they were able to escape the demands of the day job. The university's Foster lounge offered respite for...
War robots designed by academics at Cranfield University have won a Ministry of Defence (MoD) competition to develop autonomous machines to assist the military. As Times Higher Education reported (28...