Laurie Taylor Column
Candidate 1572. Marks please, Maureen. 67, 66, 59, 64, 63 and 65. And the average is 64.1. So under our rounding-up rules, the 67 and the 66 are rounded up to 70. And that gives us a new average of...
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Leader: New media but same message
Colleges and universities sometimes need to be shocked out of their complacency to keep pace with changes in society - particularly among the young. Baroness Greenfield's remarks to the Association...
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Leader: Little things mean a lot
It is no surprise that students choose universities on more than simply academic grounds. Those who have observed the process - or remember their own criteria - will know that location, facilities...
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A comprehensive failure?
The dilemma of a drop in applications from maintained schools to study sciences at universities goes much further and deeper than suggested in Trends in Higher Education (June 10). The true fault...
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Medical role models
Thank you for highlighting the critical "shortage of medical academics" (News, June 10). I am a supporter of the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (Icram) and a member of the UK...
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New page for London
The recent announcement by David Pearson, the Senate House librarian, that all members of the federal University of London - undergraduates, postgraduates and staff - will shortly have automatic...
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Piano Man theory
The case for diagnosing the "Piano Man" as an autistic savant is compelling ("Autism experts offer to help in Piano Man case", June 10). If this unfortunate man is to receive the best care, he surely...
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Unhealthy criticism
The review by Niall Dickson ("An all-out attack on a managerial cancer", June 10) of Allyson Pollock's book NHS Plc: The Privatisation of our Health Care reads more like a gutter-press diatribe than...
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No gong again
I see that I have once again been overlooked in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. This is after nearly 30 years of monitoring and reporting on the murdering quacks of the medico-pharma mafia, the...
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RAE cash cliques
The Times Higher 's letters page has been strangely silent on the news that "about one in six" members of research assessment exercise sub-panels will be from just three universities ("Big three...
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Top tables?
Presumably, most people would agree that all institutions in UK higher education are not the same. My co-authors and I would also argue that attempts at ranking the institutions should not all be...
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This will really needle les Anglais
The Bayeux Tapestry - Anglo-Saxon England's 'sunburst of glory' - may be the handiwork of the French after all. Steve Farrar reports Among the souvenirs on sale in Canterbury Cathedral's gift shop is...
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Can the spooks be spooked?
Respected Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew has been chosen to write the official history of MI5, but Anthony Glees is not convinced that one man can tell the full story of UK Intelligence...
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Poems from the academy selected by Christopher Ricks
Walt Whitman provides this week's verse inspired by university life When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns...
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Heat, light and a case of vintage reserve
Sparks flew when a group of hand-picked scientists debated why it is that the highly intelligent can fend off mental decline. Lisa Melton caught the action The threat hung in the air. Ian Deary, one...