Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (3)
There has been an increasing trend to view the purpose of universities as the production of streams of "work-ready" graduates. Unfortunately, the real losers in this process are the students, who do...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (5)
In Student Focus (THES, January 19), Frank Furedi points to lowest common denominator undergraduate courses devised to meet access targets, while Diane Purkiss contrasts teaching for the bright and...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (4)
Frank Furedi highlights the difficulty of challenging students intellectually. This problem will grow as younger colleagues are initiated into the Quality Assurance Agency-led culture of reductionist...
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Leader: Respect for people will win informed consent
This week's report on the widespread clandestine retention of body parts at Alder Hey hospital and elsewhere uncovers practices aptly described as grotesque by health secretary Alan Milburn. Its...
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Leader: Any reform must put the interests of students first
This week's academic asset exchanges on Humberside are only the latest sign that the landscape of British higher education is starting to alter after many years in which fundamental change has been...
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Vital research put at risk
Researchers fear that a knee-jerk reaction to the Alder Hey body parts scandal could hit vital medical research and teaching. In the wake of the Redfern report, medical schools insist procedures to...
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Latest UK news
MPs call for higher repayment threshold MPs on the cross-party education select committee have told higher education minister Baroness Blackstone that the government should ...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES John Wood, dean of engineering at Nottingham University, has been appointed chief executive of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. Researchers in Canada and the United...
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Why I take television series seriously as subjects for academic study
One of the most interesting things for me as a film historian is the development of what is called short-form television - series that have half-hour and hour-long episodes. In my lectures, I look...
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Business won't boom in ghetto
A free-standing research council will stifle management studies, argues Anthony Hopwood. From time to time, there is pressure to create an independent Research Council for Management Research. The...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES: Gill Jackson argued that Cambridge's equality audit had valuable lessons for other universities. Reading Gill Jackson's article as a first-year historian, there seems to be a...
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Spare us logo land
Ads on university websites are an unwelcome intrusion in what has been a traditionally advertising-free zone, argues Charles Crook. When you think about it, the library catalogue serving a university...
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DU test is no fishy tale
The military denies it but depleted uranium has been discovered in veterans' bodies. Philip Fine reports. It was 3am when Pat Horan emailed her colleagues to let them know the final test results. She...
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Excellence comes through diversity
Research should be supported even in departments scoring less well in the RAE, says John Enderby. Concentration and selectivity in university research funding has reached the right level. The health...
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Playtime gets serious
Schools should capitalise on the popularity of Pokémon. Studies of the trading card phenomenon are revealing potential educational benefits. "It's not all commercial exploitation," said David...