Letter: Troublesome trap
Higher education researchers are walking into a troublesome trap ("Scholars say big picture is lost in big numbers", THES , July 6). In media audience research for the past 20 years there has been a...
Higher education researchers are walking into a troublesome trap ("Scholars say big picture is lost in big numbers", THES , July 6). In media audience research for the past 20 years there has been a...
Thirty-three new fellows are elected to the British Academy (Glittering prizes, THES , July 6). Of these, 28 (85 per cent) are male and 26 (79 per cent) are from the "golden triangle" of Oxford,...
I welcome the attention you give the Learning and Teaching Support Network in fulfilling a role in a changing higher education quality assurance framework ("Could the ILT take over the QAA's...
Like the monster in a badly made horror movie that refuses to die, the Quality Assurance Agency looks set to stagger on. Even the new blueprint from vice-chancellors and funding chiefs ("Split over...
While the left wing of the student movement is right to highlight the lack of real financial accountability in the National Union of Students ("NUS faces split over cash crisis", THES , July 6), this...
I must express some mild amusement at the situation the NUS is facing. We at Umist decided to disaffiliate from the union mainly because we did not perceive it as having our best interests at heart....
Aged 36, I have a degree from Cambridge, a PhD from Imperial College and 12 years' industrial R&D experience (nine years in Australia with a Forbes top 50 company and three years in the UK...
If only universities were like community colleges, say the Open University pundits ("Experts on access lay blame on campuses", THES , July 6), then we could easily solve the widening participation...
Congratulations to Alistair Ross on producing a useful list of possible reasons why working-class students may still be deterred from university (Letters, THES , July 6). There is, however, a need to...
It is the Quality Assurance Agency's responsibility to defend its subject reviewers, whose probity has been challenged by the suggestion that they have been operating a "cartel" to give artificially...
The THES 's analysis of universities' wealth shows how much wealthier Oxford and Cambridge are than the rest. That Cambridge is worth some 170 London Guildhall universities gives new meaning to "...

We may be trashing our environment now, but the more crowded the world becomes, the less polluted it might be. Fred Pearce explains how. It is an obvious proposition. More people are bad for the...
Following the spectacular growth of the University of Phoenix, Jon Marcus reports on an increasing enthusiasm in the United States for for-profit higher education. Although for-profit companies have...
The recent anti-capitalist demonstrations against the European Union have highlighted the revolving door between big business and the European Commission, best illustrated by the architect of its...
A breath of fresh air appears to have swept through MI5, the notoriously secretive British security service, over the ten years since the Open Government Initiative began - particularly where history...