Conversation with the past acquires an ironical twist
Economy, Polity and Society - History, Religion and Culture
Economy, Polity and Society - History, Religion and Culture
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a gothic novelist with a penchant for the macabre: "For the most wild yet most homely...
Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Film Music
Two Faces of Liberalism
IBM and the Holocaust
More and more academics are being declared research inactive in the RAE for strategic reasons - THES, July 6 . Yes, Doctor Cosgrove, do come in. How's the psychology research coming along? You're...
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...