Laurie Taylor Column
Lecturer lets students write their own examination paper - The Times Higher, June 30 B.A. Honours. Cultural and Media Studies. MEDIA THEORY. PAPER 1. Try to answer at least one question. Q1 ....
Lecturer lets students write their own examination paper - The Times Higher, June 30 B.A. Honours. Cultural and Media Studies. MEDIA THEORY. PAPER 1. Try to answer at least one question. Q1 ....
On Thomas Jefferson's gravestone, just three of his achievements are mentioned: that he was the author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom , and that...
The foundation on which the arguments of disintegrating communities are based is sheer student-hating prejudice ("Student 'yobs' drive out locals", June 30). It would be interesting to see how the...
Please add Bristol to the list of cities suffering badly from the wholesale takeover of previously well-balanced residential streets. The most potent symptoms are loud student parties that go on all...
The teaching of creationism in science classes is not right, because creationism addresses the theological question of how the designer created (if there is a designer). But the concept of...
Readers of The Times Higher might be forgiven for thinking that the world of science was divided into two parts, the majority who believe that evolution is true and rules out religious faith, and a...
Ian Fuller suffers from a fundamental misconception if he thinks that the function of education is to act as a forum for discussing new ideas and perspectives ("Science of Earth's birth not set in...
I was fascinated by your front page story "Female lecturers more likely to freeze" (June 23). This is an issue of considerable cultural importance. A female academic described how male colleagues had...
So female lecturers are more prone to break down while in full flow than their male colleagues. Aside from wondering about the scientific basis for such a survey, could it be that this happens...
I have never seen my female colleagues incoherent or intimidated. On the contrary, they are just as good at their jobs as the men. Catherine Belsey University of Wales, Swansea
Christopher Hitchens half-laments the absence of an official monument to Thomas Paine (Opinion, June 16). The University of East Anglia hosts a biennial Thomas Paine Lecture. These occasions often...
Vice-chancellors are making exaggerated claims about the percentage of top-up fee income needed to meet their pay offer ("V-cs say jobs will go if staff vote 'no'", June 30). If top-up fees had not...
Lisa Taraki's article ("Confront the colluders in Israel's academy", June 23) provides a powerful argument for the academic boycott of Israel. But critics of such a boycott should consider the...
There may be more female graduates than in the past, but they are having fewer or no children. The traditional middle-class recruiting ground for students is shrinking, so, asks Alison Wolf, do...
In parts of Britain, white males have more chance of going to prison than of entering higher education. Harriet Swain looks at some local responses A 15-year-old boy stands in a wood. It's dark and...