The problem of poor PhD completion rates may not be language proficiency alone. Undergraduate degrees in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries do not adequately prepare students to think critically...
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, neatly encapsulates what is wrong with so much of the student-as-consumer model when it is applied to the function of a...
I wish to alert readers to how cuts are being imposed on London Metropolitan University's Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education (Hale). Of 14 subject areas, only six will remain, in...
Chris Duke thinks I'm naive to suggest that it is the duty of academia to laugh at government while still taking its money ("Impact joke is on us", Letters, 28 April).But I did not say that we should...
Congratulations to Fred Inglis on his wonderful parody of Leavisism ("Words as weapons", 5 May). He has perfectly captured its paranoid rhetoric and updated the wilful ignorance of anything F.R....
As privatisation encroaches upon the UK higher education sector, should the academic and administrative staff of universities be encouraged to buy their university in order to keep their destiny in...
City University London's Cass Business School runs a BSc in accounting and finance in collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) that offers students...
Anthony Rodriguez (Letters, 5 May) may well have a point about discriminatory admission practices at female-only colleges (after all, history demonstrates nothing if not the unwarranted dominance of...
I see that a University of Cambridge study has concluded that formal dining in the academy not only educates people on how to pass the port but is also central to the maintenance of the class system...
A flawed satire of the moral duplicity at the heart of American politics wins Duncan Wu's qualified praise
Families can go to extreme lengths to keep their secrets, finds Gary Day, but the truth will out
A scholar, soldier and unlikely television star has died.Richard Holmes was born in Staffordshire on 29 March 1946 and educated at Forest School in northeast London before going on to read history at...
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Newcastle UniversityFull steam (or wind or sun) aheadScientists from an English university are leading a £3 million European Commission project to revolutionise the way ships harness energy....
This basket decorated with seals was made of baleen, rushes and walrus ivory by Alaskan Inuit in the early 20th century.