The European Union has always realised that research is a contributor to economic success and a machine for creating a community spirit. But its research spending has been largely confined to the...
Only a few weeks ago, British higher education was celebrating a big increase in the number of applications from overseas students. No matter what difficulties there might be with prime minister Tony...
Modules were introduced into higher education in the UK via the Open University, not directly from the US as Bob Brecher asserts ("Fast food is no substitute for an intellectual feast", THES , June 7...
To blame the death of intellect on modularity is interesting but wrong. The culprit is the semester. Forcing the curriculum and assessment into 15-week chunks leads to atomisation and discontinuity....
Ian McDonald's article (Features, THES , June 7) contains a blinding self-contradiction. He argues that science and argument have discredited "scientific" racism. And then he talks about attempts to...
As academics at an Israeli university we have been associated with Middlesex University for 18 months, and have come to respect the initiatives, efforts and hard work invested by Ken Goulding and his...
While I do not support an academic boycott of Israeli universities (Letters, THES , June 7), it has been impossible to conduct my own long-standing academic links with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip...
"Invitations for gifted cousins" ( THES , June 7) provides a timely reminder of the continuing need for scholarships to Commonwealth countries. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission this year has...
Roy Lee-Faulkner (Letters, THES , May 31) suggests there is a research opportunity on the sudden family death phenomenon among students at examination time. I regret to tell him the matter has...
I, like Alan Ryan, have a special fondness for my Oxford college, Magdalen ("Why I...", THES , May 31). Like him, I am packing for a trip to the west coast of the US, although to join the Salk...
Full marks to Mary Evans for highlighting the compliance culture suffocating universities (Soapbox, THES , May 31). Fear and apathy feed this. Young, new academics are reluctant to challenge the "new...
The assertion (Opinion, THES , June 7) that your tables of A-level scores achieved by students admitted to higher education show which are "the easiest and hardest British universities to get into"...
Including the Open University in your analysis of A-level grades of university entrants (Analysis, THES , June 7), would have confounded your pre and post-1992 universities dichotomy. Since its...
Sociologist Harry Collins notes (Books, THES , June 7) that the idea of a "science of society" has been so thoroughly squashed that "post-modernist carpet-baggers roam at will". On the following page...
My sympathy goes out to Steven Cotgrove about whom Harry Collins reminisces,"we beat him up mercilessly". Surely it ought to be possible to engage in critical debate without resorting to such a...