Your leader, "Time for a return to entry duty?" (4 November), rightly calls upon universities to play a part in shaping A-level qualifications. But let us not be tempted to join the clamour of voices...
I disagree with the somewhat dismissive approach to the views of teachers and subject associations taken in your feature, "Making the A level work a little harder" (4 November).The A level is part of...
The Browne Report looks likely to leave arts and humanities students with twice the level of fees and some academic departments facing closure ("The shape of things to come", 28 October).Given that "...
Universities need to be able to plan in order to deliver high-quality courses. But student choice is likely to be fickle, with income course by course hard to predict from year to year.How will the...
If a review chaired by a distinguished literary publisher and president of the British Academy had recommended that government funding for undergraduate teaching be entirely concentrated on the...
There is one point in the Policy Exchange report on private providers in higher education that must not go unchallenged ("Private firms keen to take Queen's shilling for student support", 4 November...
Jay Kennedy ends his piece, "My Dan Brown moment" (4 November), by decrying the impact of what he calls "outreach" on the humanities. According to him, such activities "are incompatible with the...
Congratulations to Jay Kennedy for attracting Hollywood's attention with his work on musical patterns in Plato. I hereby inform the studios that I have found in the Browne Review signs of madness,...
Brian Bloch suggests that "non-native speakers are generally unable to write an acceptable level of English for academic purposes" ("Trips and falls of the tongue", 21 October).Putting aside...
You quote a lecturer complaining because a mature student sent them notes saying how brilliant they were ("Diaries of doom, gloom and anger", 4 November). What planet are they are living on? The...
Academic freedom is deemed by the Hunt report to be one of the strengths of higher education in the Republic of Ireland ("Bad news travels slow", 4 November). Why, then, did the Irish academics who...
Narrowly vocational higher education stripped of the insights offered by the arts and humanities, particularly literature, does students in all disciplines a lasting disservice, says Roger Lister
Is globalisation becoming a reality in the academy’s top ranks? It’s early days, but there are signs that the barriers are falling as universities look abroad to find the best captains. John Morgan...
Judy Simons declares that the cultural and societal benefits of the arts are transformative, calculable and must be advertised
Patterns of migration - The high-flying leaders who leave the nest in search of foreign challenges