Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. European academia has much work to do to...
It is a shame that David Mycock, a student at Derby College, was put off applying for Oxbridge by what he saw as the "elitist" attitude of recruiters at a Manchester fair ("I've struck elitist...
Psychology must not be dragged down the road of media studies by detractors of vocational choice. According to the latest What Graduates do? report, 64.7 per cent of psychology graduates are employed...
Knowing students' A-level results before selection could intrude into our complacency (Leader, THES , August 15). What if we have to define what is special about educating undergraduates to identify...
You published a curious university advert for a "director of studies" who is not required to teach (or research), or ever to have done so ( THES , August 8). It could be Poppleton University, but it...
Despite our long colonial and trading history, the UK has never had a national plan for teaching Asian languages and cultures, a proper knowledge of which is vital now more than ever to our economy...
Joanna Swann (Letters, THES , August 1) implies that Karl Popper originated the theory that science is, or should be, distinguished from non-science by the criterion of falsification. Popper claimed...
Temperatures in Guildford rose to extremes when your travel and tourism subject focus omitted to mention the pioneering and world-class work of the University of Surrey ("Rise in degrees as things...
Academics should protect themselves against deliberate or inadvertent copying of their work ("Pondering the plagiarism plague"; "Academic claims Seoul credit for others' work", THES , August 1). This...
Michael Rutter's review of Frank Mieles' Conversations with Arthur Jensen is suitably ambivalent (Books, THES , August 8). Rutter has previously suggested that some tendencies, including criminal,...
In discussing the melanic form of the peppered moth, Michael Majerus does little to support his claim that "Darwinian evolution is fact" (Soapbox, THES , August 8). Rather than present "the most...
So frescoes bombed in 1944 were shattered into pieces "the smallest the size of a farthing" ("Italian scientists to piece together bomb-damaged church frescoes", THES , August 15). Now, how small...
Charles Pasternack is wrong - there are no professors of leather technology in the UK or Europe, and I should know (Features, THES , August 8). But the world's leading School of Leather Technology is...
According to Lawrence Cohen ("How to make a campus a safer haven", THES , August 15), Natfhe believes that research carried out for the Nuffield Foundation "exaggerate(s) the threat of violence...
The latest working of the research funding formula will further reward departments that have already struck lucky thanks to an unbalanced system ("Rethink doubles 6* winners", THES , August 15). The...