South Africa is a young society, unsure of itself. The Union was formed in 1910, a republic was declared in 1961, and the black majority won the franchise in 1994. South Africa 3.0 is at a crossroads...
A charismatic lecturer on the psychological aspects of politics has died.Hugh Berrington was born in Ewell, Surrey on 12 December 1928. He was educated at Ewell Castle School and, at the age of 15,...
Fed up with high journal costs, institutions and scholars are pushing back at publishers. Paul Jump reports
Speaking from institutions across the country and the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, we write to express our profound consternation at the Higher Education Academy's decision to...
David Eastwood asks "Who's afraid of student choice?" (11 November) and accuses the academy of "timidity". But the Browne Review designates "priority subjects" without regard to student choice or...
Eastwood's defence of the Browne Review relies on wishful thinking. He predicts that "students will enter as discriminating and informed applicants and will study as expectant and committed learners...
Your article "Bristol v-c faced no opposition in bid to become UUK president" (18 November) fails to paint the full picture. Universities UK's strategy regarding the government's cuts programme and...
Yes, a great many so-called "historical" novels are trash ("History in the faking", 18 November). Is War and Peace also trash? I ask mainly because Leo Tolstoy was scathing about the contributions of...
Peter Geoghegan argues that the massive student protest in London on 10 November reflected real anger and is likely to be the first of many ("Student riots, the first taste of the fruits of unbridled...
Aaron Porter, the president of the National Union of Students, is absolutely right ("New market, new rules: NUS signals consumer revolution", 18 November). Only by diverting a greater proportion of...
As an American teenager, I considered many West Coast and New England institutions, but after a visit to the University of St Andrews, I realised that it was a cheaper option - even with the expense...
I'm afraid Martin A. Mills is deluded ("A grand unified theory of man", 18 November). Such a theory is neither possible nor desirable, because it could never accommodate the natural and social...
Meditation is not a fitting member of a list of "treatments that many regard as having unproven efficacy at best" ("No 'magic bullet': try this amulet", 18 November).The mental-health benefits that...
The Freedom of Information Act enables public access to scientists' research data, but can scientific knowledge really be extracted in this way? Scientists should engage with the public, but need to...
This should be the age of reason but we are failing to foster the intellectual skills that could liberate student minds. Linda Elder argues that we should embed critical thinking at the heart of the...