Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
Is the increasing tendency to label normal reactions to childbirth as postnatal depression undermining our ability to cope as parents? asks Ellie Lee Is postnatal depression an epidemic? According to...
The action of university teachers in boycotting everything to do with student assessment is morally contemptible. The AUT (aka the Association for Useless Tactics) has a long and inglorious history...
In your leader (March 12), you state that "before long, exam papers will have to be set". This does not accurately reflect the urgency needed in settling the Association of University Teachers...
Discuss: A 3.44 per cent increase backdated to August 2003 is added to lecturers' pay packets in June 2004. Calculate the actual value of the award in percentage terms to an individual currently at...
On the issue of the Bush administration's deplorable politically motivated attitude towards stem-cell research, Elizabeth Blackburn, member of the President's Council on Bioethics until her recent...
There's a certain irony in the fact that in the same week you publish an article lambasting the Bush administration for its ideological approach to science you also publish "Sleep easy with your baby...
Stephen Unwin claims that God has a 67 per cent chance of existing (March 12). What makes me suspect that anybody presenting such an argument is 100 per cent likely to believe in God? Since there are...
Using Unwin's original approach to statistics, I've calculated leprechauns at 20/1, the tooth fairy at 7/1, and a whopping 6/4 on for Father Christmas. Of course, a lot depends on what you accept as...
The comments about the Cambridge-MIT Institute (March 5) are at least a year out of date and do not reflect current views. References to CMI in the Lambert report and the innovation review are...
We need to think carefully about how financial assistance is employed. Fiona Devine (Soapbox, March 12) has the right thrust, but is in danger of choosing the wrong blade. The University of the West...
Many arguments against the higher education bill have been ignored. By the time of a 2009 review, the "higher education market" will be regulated by the World Trade Organisation. Besides the...
Bob Brecher suggests "perhaps the free-market fundamentalism unleashed on our universities can eventually be reversed" (Professional, March 5). UK universities are overwhelmingly funded by tax-...