All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist
Dame Sue Black’s pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

Dame Sue Black’s pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

While Laurie Taylor is away, guest holiday columnist Christopher Bigsby offers a tragic tale of an errant email, a Classics professor and a vengeful vice-chancellor

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Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable – an institution going to the wall – is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect
Paul James Cardwell suggests that “UK students ‘may be barred from Erasmus after Brexit’” (Opinion, 10 August). He is right to insist on the value of Erasmus+ exchanges for UK students, in particular...
Re “Research in social science may well be doomed unless we act” (Opinion, 10 August). Why not simply say that less research should be funded until more of it has been read properly? The main problem...
The 10 August issue of Times Higher Education had two articles the same topic – predatory journals. One, by Roger Watson (“Fight fraudulent journals”, Opinion), offers suggestions to universities on...
In her article “Open access monograph dash could lead us off a cliff” (Opinion, 27 July), Marilyn Deegan warns of the dangers of open access monograph publishing. As head of UCL Press, the UK’s first...
In an amusing interview with John Elmes (HE&Me, News, 10 August), Stephen Milner described a “memorable moment” of his career. He related how, as a PhD student at the Warburg Institute, he had...

All the latest programme news and analysis ahead of the 2017 THE World Academic Summit, hosted by King's College London

UK needs an antidote to London dominance and toxic deindustrialisation, says John Morgan