Aspirational language
The idea that Quality Assurance Agency inspectors will report on "threshold standards" ("'Threshold standards' to be upheld when inspectors call", 15 July), when the term "threshold" by dictionary...
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Alas, poor Yorick
We are writing to express our disappointment at Times Higher Education's decision to publish the article titled "Brussels cash comes at a terrible price" by Yorick Wilks (1 July). The article, which...
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Outbreak of 'Endnotitis'
Your article "Style points" (15 July) reminded me of the notes for contributors to the Journal of Education for Teaching, edited at the time by the late Ed Stones. He was known for his no-nonsense...
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Divide and (slide) rule
A false dichotomy is posed when physics and engineering compete ("Physicists defend coffers from a raid by engineers", 22 July). Without physics there would be no engineering and vice versa. The...
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Scientific romance
Re "And yet it works" (22 July). (Declaration of interest: I fell in love with science aged 5 and never looked back ...)I caress your hypothesisAnd gently adjust your little factors.How excellent...
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Profits of doom
Climate change is serious business - in more ways than one. Martin Cohen describes how capitalist 'bootleggers' have co-opted the environmental 'Baptists' to fulfil their raison d'etre - making money...
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The virtue of verse
How seriously are we to take the meaning of poetry? George Watson considers the costs of seeing poetry as largely spontaneous and self-expressive
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Get in shape: lose the fat
Clive Bloom sheds few tears for Middlesex's strangely underpopulated philosophy department - or any other corners of an academy short on recruits and long overdue for the axe. He argues that to save...
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29 July 2010
Boom then bust? - UK may pay high price for escalating overseas fees
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Tara Brabazon: Take note as another learning discipline slides away
After exam boards have been conducted, letters signed and mailed to students, external examiners thanked and supplementary assessments created, there is a moment – a fracture in time – where...
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US fights to take back the power in the overseas market
Universities use cash, partnerships and recruiters to make up lost ground. Jon Marcus reports
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A Critique of the Cuts
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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UKBA reimposes language restrictions on foreign applicants
The UK Border Agency has reintroduced language restrictions on overseas students applying for visas, a move that could have knock-on effects for universities.
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BPP wins university college status as David Willetts acts on pledge to boost private providers
BPP College of Professional Studies has become the first private provider to be awarded the university college title for more than 30 years.
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National strike looms as union says signals on talks with employers are ‘not good’
Higher education’s first national industrial action since 2006 is “very likely” and plans are being drawn up for a September ballot, the University and College Union has said.