Off Piste: Courtesy calls
Kevin McCarron considers doggy bags and Debrett's, passing the port and choosing urinals, and why simple good manners really do make the man
Kevin McCarron considers doggy bags and Debrett's, passing the port and choosing urinals, and why simple good manners really do make the man
Bursaries should remove barriers to participation, but instead they confuse and perhaps even deter those they were intended to help
John Usher, a leading authority on European law, has died.He was born in Cheshire on 12 August 1945 and educated at Hyde Grammar School and Newcastle University before receiving a scholarship to...
In Frank Burnet's article "Pick'n'mix not so sweet" (6 November), he reports that his experience "has been that few things upset students more than the suggestion that it might be necessary to...
Tim Birkhead's report that some school biology textbooks say there is a purpose behind the laying of eggs in great quantities by fish ("How duff exams spawn failure", 13 November) would make you...
Edzard Ernst (Letters, 6 November) is wrong in claiming that students of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) do not understand "critical thinking".Precisely the reverse is the case, with CAM...
John Holford's article "There is a wider purpose for universities than 'serving the economy'" (13 November) rightly draws critical attention to the Government's compression of the definition of...
I don't know which was more alarming about Bob Blaisdell's article on teaching ("You can lead cattle to water but you can't make them think", 13 November): his belief that the treatment of cattle at...
Might I reassure Robert Nancarrow (Letters, 13 November)? Evidence submitted to any Parliamentary Select Committee is covered by absolute privilege. Furthermore, an employer who disciplines an...
Reading "No change in ranking for Poppleton" (13 November) reminded me of how far we've come, in factitious terms, from "Don's diary" to "The Poppletonian", a move accompanying that from The THES to...
Oh dear, it never ends. You report that Roger Brown is calling for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) to be given a role in reviewing universities' degree-awarding powers, and for its remit to be...
It is to be hoped that there will be wide support for the call for the withdrawal of Home Office rules requiring the surveillance of overseas students issued by the National Critical Lawyers Group...
The conference "Intellect and Democracy" held in Edinburgh last month was University and College Union Scotland's contribution to kick-starting a discussion about the future of Scotland's...
A ten-year collaboration between The Open University and the College of Law has been sealed for another decade. Initiated in 1997, the partnership has become the largest provider of taught law-degree...
A scheme that encourages science postgraduates to become schoolteachers is being expanded with funding from the Foyle Foundation. Imperial College London's Inspire programme, which combines a...