Englishness has long been a puzzle both to philosophers and to historians. As long ago as 1741, David Hume declared: "The English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national...
External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive. Chris Hackley calls for a more constructive, European-style approach - and for judgement moderated...
Our Deputy Head of Brand Management, Georgina Edsel, has warmly welcomed an analysis by Patrick Freeland-Small, the chief marketing officer at the University of Melbourne, that argues that...
Roger Walters is correct in stating that The Open University's council has initiated a full consultation exercise on the proposal to cease direct employment of its staff based in continental Europe...
I write regarding your news article "Elite institutions predicted to fall short on research student qualifications" (17 May), which draws on data from the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England...
Under the headline "Three times the cost but same timetable" (News, 17 May), 糖心Vlog analyses the recent 糖心Vlog Policy Institute report The Academic Experience of Students at...
I recently spent the best part of a Sunday afternoon trying to help my daughter complete the student loan application for entry in September.The Student Loans Company website prompts students to use...
I cannot tell from Maleiha Malik's review of Martha Nussbaum's The New Religious Intolerance to what extent this may be true of the book, but the critique is deeply flawed ("Signposts to a brave new...
It is by no means only outside the academy that "Free-range thinkers" (3 May) plough their non-conventional furrows; and it is arguably essential for Foucauldian "fearless speech" to survive and...
So, according to the Universities Human Resources group, autonomy and academic freedom are past it ("Freedom a 'former value' in admin-led sector", News, 17 May). In the same issue, Tom Palaima...
I congratulate the academic who managed to wring ?50 from the BBC for her work ("Auntie exploitation", Letters, 10 May). I recently volunteered to participate in a public event for BBC Learning, tied...
Recently I attended a talk by Stefan Collini about What Are Universities For?, his new book. I expected the venue (a bookshop in central London) to be packed with students, lecturers, perhaps even...
Your remark about the greater influence of the University of Oxford compared with the University of Cambridge appears tongue in cheek, but it might be taken more seriously (The week in higher...
I note that the issue of research impact is again of concern (eg, "Dismissal threat for metrics letter", 17 May). In particular, it seems there is an issue about communicating research insights...
An archaeologist who played a central role in excavating King Croesus' city of Sardis has died.Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr - commonly known as "Greenie" - was born on 3 June 1937 in the US city...