Arts bias is costly
Last month, The Times Higher suggested that I somehow disagreed with Boris Johnson's view that if students "can benefit from (a degree) they should be given every opportunity to do so" ("Boris gets...
Last month, The Times Higher suggested that I somehow disagreed with Boris Johnson's view that if students "can benefit from (a degree) they should be given every opportunity to do so" ("Boris gets...
Phillip Duckworth has an interesting - if mistaken - take on the tragic events at a research unit at Northwick Park Hospital (Letters, March 31). That this is the first time such an adverse reaction...
It was interesting to see the table of winners if quality-related research (QR) funding was distributed according to 2003-04 external research income parameters ("What will be yardstick for success...
A colleague who required his students to purchase a copy of his (excellent) textbook found an inspired way to solve the conflict of interest problem highlighted in the story "Now apply in writing to...
There is a crucial difference between the redundancies planned at Northumbria University and those at London South Bank University ("Natfhe poised to take action", March 31). The 20 academic job cuts...
In her review of The Ethics of War (March 31), Margaret Anstee states that "in real life even these (moral criteria) are usually hard to evaluate". The invasion of Iraq provides a case where the...
In his review of two texts on reading research (Books, March 24), Charles Hulme says phonemes are "the individual speech sound units in words" and that the alphabetic principle is "that the letters...
The intellectual and ethical poverty of the academic boss class expressed in Jeremy Valentine's letter (March 31) is exactly what dumb insolence (an active form of sabotage) must fight, but they can...

When universities get into bed with industry, can academic independence be guaranteed, asks Michael North Reports last week that failing further education colleges could be taken over by private...
Oxbridge could learn a thing or two from Harvard... and vice versa, says Harry Lewis The colonists of New England were a well-educated lot. More than a hundred who arrived before 1640 had Oxford or...
Amrit Dhillon explains why India - both urban and rural - is such a popular recruiting ground for UK universities With the battle for international students - and their cash - becoming ever more...
By classifying wrongdoing according to its utility, the West seeks to condone breaches of human rights. But the means can never be used to justify the end, argues Conor Gearty Until 1968,...
In the year that marks the bicentenary of the birth of John Stuart Mill, A. C. Grayling imagines how the philosopher would respondto the debate on academic freedom in light of the Frank Ellis case It...
Vienna, 05 April 2006 Conference on GMO co-existence Vienna, 05 April 2006 Ladies and gentlemen I am also pleased to be here today. The scale of the event alone demonstrates the considerable interest...