Reopen channels
We do not agree with all the arguments advanced by Darrel Ince, but it is clear that much has changed in recent months ("Pensions are safe if we don't stop working", 30 September). The Universities...
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Stuck in the Dark Ages 1
One need not cross the Atlantic for empirical evidence that "science versus religion" is a media-driven false opposition ("The dogma delusion", 23 September). Nor should there be surprise that a...
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Stuck in the Dark Ages 2
It seems strange for your editorial to evoke a battlefront between religion and secularism in universities while also drawing into the debate John Henry Newman ("The space for a spirit to know", 23...
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Stuck in the Dark Ages 3
So Archbishop Stephen Hawking has pontificated that God is not necessary to explain the Universe. He asks us to believe that the laws of physicists can now be enshrined in M-Theory - a Theory of...
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Discord needs new tune
Your report "Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 1 October) prompted comments online about institutions wasting money resisting employment...
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Didn't get the memo
Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, defends a "wide-ranging" higher educational policy ("Cultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation?", timeshighereducation....
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7 October 2010
Kaleidoscopic vision - The pioneers shifting disciplinary boundaries
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Tara Brabazon: The unsustainable shock of the new
We all collude in the hype cycle that turns shiny ‘new media’ into forgotten, junk-generating ‘dead media’, and it’s time to look at the costs, argues Tara Brabazon
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Nobel wins ‘exemplars’ of UK excellence threatened by cuts, scientists claim
The UK’s second Nobel award in two days attests to the research excellence that will be endangered if the research budget is slashed in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, scientists have...
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Share the dream and state the case
To secure our future in hard times, we must make tough choices and ensure that society is aware of higher education’s value, argues Paul Marshall
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Inside Higher Ed: Transgender athletes, college teams
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Let scientists think, entrepreneurs create business opportunities and graduates pay more
Scientists must be liberated from the idea that they are “just cogs in an economic machine”, the Conservative Party conference has heard.
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Research identifies quintuple threat if fees cap is lifted
Degree-course fees are likely to escalate rapidly and could reach as much as five times the current sum if the existing cap is lifted, an education charity has warned.
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An estate of mind: learning to build the perfect campus
Defining institutional mission is the cornerstone of a successful development, Matthew Reisz hears
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Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution’s finances.