The findings of this week's MORI survey of young people's university ambitions deserves to change practices and policies. The survey shows that evangelising summer schools and outreach missions,...
Politicians promising money normally implies the imminence of an election. So the sight of prime minister Tony Blair speaking out yesterday on the importance of properly funded science, only weeks...
So lack of "social skills" in working-class people causes the earnings gap ("'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills", THES , May 17). What price social mobility? The more who have degrees,...
You report the conclusions of a report for the Council for Industry and Higher Education on the impact of social class on the financial returns of different degrees. The council believes that...
Margaret Hodge's views at the Association of University Teachers conference reflect government policy ("'Callous' Hodge is berated by union", THES , May 17). For years, universities have faced...
It is interesting that James Tooley's romantic and yet scurrilous educational policy publications should receive so much attention in the quality press. His notions of women's education reveal...
Recently I saw a poster advertising a protest against Israel by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Among the organisations calling for this protest was Natfhe, and among the speakers was Paul...
James Tooley has taken the fictional character of Bridget Jones as a realistic example of how modern women think. Independent women, who realise they have more to offer than staying at home playing...
Here we go again in the IQ debate: claim and counterclaim; much heat, little light ("Professor under fire for racist views", THES , May 17). Those interested in this debate should read the findings...
Why is it that Geoffrey Sampson of the University of Sussex is under pressure to resign for publishing an article stating "there's nothing wrong with racism" and claiming that racism is "natural",...
Would not the most appropriate reward for Geoffrey Sampson's contribution to scientific and cultural debates be promotion from a chair to a high chair? Malcolm Hardman University of Warwick
The EU's ambivalent immigration policy is driven by national insecurity and concern for the welfare state, which the far right exploits, says Andrew Geddes. There are two immigration Europes. One...
Critics have called it a 'McUniversity', but Phoenix University, founded by John Sperling (right) could be the most significant provider of mass-education in the world. Stephen Phillips reports....
In the last in our Pushing 50 series, Alison Wolf suggests that attempts to widen participation in higher education need to focus on schoolchildren long before they embark on A-level study. In 1963,...
Did our language evolve from hand gestures, and did we talk our fellow hominids to death? Michael Corballis looks at the evidence. It seems natural to suppose, as Charles Darwin did, that human...