How refreshing to read Jonathan Steinberg's article on the relevance of biographical study ("Cult of personalities", 19 July). While there is undoubtedly a place for the Bennite argument against the...
Jonathan Steinberg is entitled to advocate the revival of biography as a legitimate form of historical writing. As the article's standfirst notes, it is people who make history, even if not in...
I have yet to see or hear convincing evidence to support the idea that a three-way merger creating a "super-university" for South East Wales would deliver higher quality, greater choice or enhanced...
Readers of Times Higher Education might not have noticed two technical papers published by the Department for Education in early July that herald a monumental shift in A levels with major...
Last month, the Higher Education Funding Council for England issued a piece of advice relating to individual circumstances for the research excellence framework.On the REF website, Hefce lists a...
David Palfreyman, director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, says that the university information website by Which? "could become a more influential source of advice for...
As one who finds English cultural hubris a source of constant amusement, I savoured two splendid examples of the trait in Times Higher Education recently.One was big-game hunter Malcolm Gillies'...
As an active spectroscopist and user of Michael Hollas' excellent texts, I agree wholeheartedly with his comments about the usage of "spectra" ("Singularly annoying", Letters, 19 July). However,...
Michael Hollas describes a number of common "incorrect" English usages that cause him "continual irritation", such as the use of "phenomena" as a singular noun. It would be helpful to those of us...
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• About one in seven state schools did not send a single pupil to a Russell Group university in 2009-10, the Financial Times reported on 18 July. Some 330 schools - 15 per cent - sent no children to...
The government expected price sensitivity and consumer choice to drive down degree costs, but that's not happening