Despite warnings of a staff-recruitment crisis, universities continue to dump 'dynamic, innovative' academics for the heinous 'crime' of turning 65. Helen Hague reports Despite all the talk about...
Many participants in the first world war buried painful memories of their brutality and atrocities. The result was a society paralysed by grief and passive in the face of subsequent fascism,...
War in Iraq would spark an exodus of refugees, but the West is unlikely to welcome the displaced with open arms. Gil Loescher reports If, as many predict, the United Nations inspection of Iraqi...
Academic salaries in the US have been soaring as faculty vie for the best, but, writes Stephen Phillips, pay inflation is slowing. "I have a formula," recounts literary critic Stanley Fish, dean of...
Money's tight and a 9am seminar is no fun with a hangover, but Liam Twigg is still happy to be the first in his family to enrol at university. Harriet Swain joined him in Birmingham for the fourth...
I am surprised you report that the research assessment exercise "does not yet recognise digitally published research" ("Take away the books and chairs collapse", THES , November 8). As a monograph...
Leicester University's US funding coup is an achievement but it is not a first ("Leicester wins US funding for trial on red wine cancer drug", THES , November 8). Twenty-five years ago at Middlesex...
Pop idol Gareth Gates was involved in publicity for Bradford's City of Culture bid ("Open market shuts door on scholarly achievement", THES , November 8). But the university made no use of his...
The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education is UK based but not UK owned. It began as a joint UK/Commonwealth organisation and now has a global membership ("Canny spin-off hailed as trendsetter",...
As a highly practical male academic I find Angela Clow's comment, "one of the roles I play in this department is to be the woman and point this sort of thing out", sexist and objectionable ("All in a...
Calculations of the return on investing in a degree are examples of fantasy economics worthy of the greatest scepticism ("Money back guaranteed?", THES , November 8). The calculation has to be...
Tim O'Shea's arguments against greater university reliance on fee income (Soapbox, THES , November 8) need rebutting. O'Shea correctly asserts that public funding annually per gross domestic product...
The adoption of the North American grade-point system will be good news not only for students and employers but also for academics ("US grading to edge out 'firsts'", THES , November 15). As the...
Laurie Taylor is wrong in his review of The Mirth of Nations to suggest that I was driven by ideology to refute the connection between ethnic joking and hostility and conflict (Books, THES , November...
The Quality Assurance Agency complains that it still receives "self-evaluation documents that are not sufficiently self-critical" ("College HE standards hit by flawed marking", THES , November 15)....