Search

168,430 results
Page 4333 of 168405 results

  1. Who got that cash?

    Four universities have been given £2.3 million for a project that will see the creation of "virtual therapists" to help sufferers of chronic medical conditions. The consortium, which is led by...

    #People

  2. Marks of distinction

    From: The University Assessment Officer To: Department of Media and Cultural Studies The university assessment committee has recently been conducting research into biases in your internal...

    #Laurie

  3. Leader: Should we allow universities to go bankrupt?

    They do things differently in America. Two years ago, the 123-year- old Huron University in South Dakota lost the battle to stay afloat and was put up for sale. Almost everything went at auction -...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  4. Oxford fumes at siting of statue

    A bitter row has broken out at Oxford University over a decision to site a 10ft high 18th-century statue in a much loved medieval room, writes Melanie Newman. A member of the Department for Culture,...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  5. More debate needed on marking 1

    The fact that the Burgess committee has had so much difficulty in achieving consensus regarding a different classification system and now wants to do away with it altogether makes one wonder why the...

    #Letters

  6. More debate needed on marking 2

    Sue Bloxham does well to remind us that summative assessment procedures are unreliable. This gets glossed over by the cryptic manner in which assessment is reported. If we ask for a vehicle report on...

    #Letters

  7. Bristol not a censor

    Your freedom-of-speech leader ("We must guard the right to say the unthinkable", October 26) swept Bristol University up in tut-tutting at institutions that did not, in the end, host a lecture by...

    #Letters

  8. Flight of fancy

    You recently said that Southampton's vice-chancellor, Bill Wakeham, is making a "small sacrifice" by driving an eco-friendly car around campus rather than his own Porsche ("Southampton grows greener...

    #Letters

  9. Load of bull

    Might I suggest to The Times Higher and its readers that the animal that is featured prominently in the picture illustrating the feature "The child departs" (October 19) is clearly a bull, as might...

    #Letters

  10. Who does what? 1

    "Only academics with direct responsibility for teaching and research (aka deans) should actually rule," says Terence Kealey ("Emmanuel lights the way on self-governance", October 19). Why did I think...

    #Letters

  11. Who does what? 2

    Terence Kealey refers to administrative staff as "college servants". How very medieval. At least at Birkbeck the academics and administrators work in partnership to ensure that good governance is...

    #Letters

  12. Who cried wolf?

    I was saddened to read letters attacking Joanna Bourke's column ("Men, too, must work to take back the night", October 19). J. Green's letter contains ill-informed comments. Reforms to rape laws are...

    #Letters

  13. Faith in hypotheses

    If the report on governance in church universities and colleges had suggested that those institutions could or should behave in the way described in The Times Higher ("Call to spell out Christian...

    #Letters

  14. Walk it like you talk it

    Sean Wallis (Letters, October 26) condemns the Government's attempts to involve universities in its academies project. So why doesn't he resign from University College London, an institution that is...

    #Letters

  15. Unwilling accomplice

    On a visit to my local Marks & Spencer, I had to walk past a picket by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, one that singled out this store in its campaign against "Israeli apartheid". The PSC's...

    #Letters