Admissions exams are on the rise in the UK, especially for subjects such as medicine. But Yasmin Anwar finds students and academics are sceptical. On a rainy day in January, 1,400 young people from...
There is much talk about equality in universities, but how many male academics actually take on the role of primary carer in the home? Caroline Davis reports. Becoming a full-time dad was never part...
I used to think that male academics didn't do children. And, if they did, they acted as if they were in permanent denial about their dark secret. I remember the time when a young colleague...
An instant history of the Iraq war does not mean university presses put cash before scholarship, says Walter Ellis. Academic publishers in the US have entered the market. Realising that there is a...
An in-your-face brand promotion is just one way institutions are preparing for the introduction of market forces by beefing up marketing muscle. Michael North reports. Marketing director Sandy Malone...
The University of the M25 is an oasis of good news in a sector full of doom and gloom. Ted Prince, its new spin doctor, starts a monthly column on the sunny side of life in higher education by...
Admissions exams are on the rise in the UK, especially for subjects such as medicine. But Yasmin Anwar finds students and academics are sceptical. On a rainy day in January, 1,400 young people from...
There is much talk about equality in universities, but how many male academics actually take on the role of primary carer in the home? Caroline Davis reports. Becoming a full-time dad was never part...
I used to think that male academics didn't do children. And, if they did, they acted as if they were in permanent denial about their dark secret. I remember the time when a young colleague...
An instant history of the Iraq war does not mean university presses put cash before scholarship, says Walter Ellis. Academic publishers in the US have entered the market. Realising that there is a...
Frank Furedi ("Get rid of those professional stabilisers", THES , October 17) may be right to suggest a counselling culture can cause some people to exaggerate their mental ill health and...
It is the time of year when our BSc therapeutic counselling students get to grips with sociological aspects of the profession. Frank Furedi's article will be a useful resource. It raises important...
Frank Furedi ("Get rid of those professional stabilisers", THES , October 17) may be right to suggest a counselling culture can cause some people to exaggerate their mental ill health and...
It is the time of year when our BSc therapeutic counselling students get to grips with sociological aspects of the profession. Frank Furedi's article will be a useful resource. It raises important...
The phrase "since the 2001 al-Qaida attacks" was wrongly attributed to me. In my view, "al-Qaida", as an omnipotent terrorist organisation, is a figment of the US media's imagination and there's no...