Symptoms of medical malaise 3
The lobby for the adoption of scholastic aptitude tests to decide university entry ("Entrance tests will favour wealthy", THES , August 22) should note that these are losing popularity in the US ("...
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Contested histories 3
Not all authors of official university histories encounter difficulties. Along with the university archivist Carole McCallum, I wrote the history of Glasgow Caledonian University, published in 1998....
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Group therapy
I was not surprised to read in Peter Levin's article ("Team virgins fear an orgy of togetherness", THES , August 15) that "assigning students to a project and leaving them to get on with it is more...
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Online optimists 1
While sharing with Alison Wolf a dislike for much bullet-point exhortatory verbiage, I would like to speak up for e-learning (Opinion, THES , August 22). E-seminars can lead to excellent and...
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Online optimists 2
Readers might think there are no other higher education opportunities in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk other than those at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge University and Suffolk College, ("City...
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Visa madness
I have just run a major programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Three Iranians, graduate students and postdocs in the US, were unable to attend because of...
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Contested histories 1
One excuse proffered by the publisher of the history of the University of Southampton for cutting my contribution was that I was "elderly" ("A hairy tale of how plum jobs can go sour", THES , August...
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Contested histories 2
Future luckless authors of university histories may wish to know of the pitfalls. My manuscript on Keele University, for example, was criticised for having chapters that were too short - but how long...
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Doing the honours
My reputation for "impeccable manners" (In the News, THES , August 15) might be threatened if I did not point out that it was my wife, not I, who obtained a masters degree at York. Anthony McClaran...
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Today's news
More women given university places than men 21,000 more women than men have been accepted for university degree courses that start this year, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Latest research news
Nasa launches Universe probe A $2 billion (£1. billion) space observatory that can study the early history of the universe has been launched by the US space agency, Nasa. The Space Infrared Telescope...
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Today's news
High-tech Oxford gaining on its old rival Oxford University, which has lagged behind Cambridge as a centre for high-tech business, is closing the gap according to Lord Sainsbury, the science minister...
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Today's news
Ministers set for new push over tuition fees Ministers are preparing to relaunch their controversial student top-up fees policy this autumn, after privately admitting that they have failed to...
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Newcastle spin-off worms its way into US market
British worms are wriggling their way across the Atlantic to plug a gap in the supply for fishermen and fill the coffers of a University of Newcastle spin-off company, writes Esther Ingram. Seabait...
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Speaking their language
Alison Utley listens in at Leeds in the latest in our series on university cities. When schoolteachers approached the University of Leeds last year to ask whether any linguists would be willing to...