While a full account of the legacy of the Cetls is not possible in a brief letter, one important example is the large number of higher education staff who, through engagement with the centres, have...
While the £315 million funding for the Cetl project was the largest of any recent initiative that failed to improve university teaching standards, it is by no means unique.Greybeards and silver...
Your report on a global study of academic salaries ("You won't get rich (but you might get a free turkey)", 22 March) notes that academic moonlighting is rife in low-paid countries. The reality is...
Ruth Deech has done a great service by highlighting the failures of some universities to respect the laws that protect students on campus from intimidation, harassment and defamation ("Hate has no...
Steve Fuller objects to being called an anti-evolutionist and then goes on to name Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as one of the heroes of his book, Humanity 2.0 ("The Darwin delusion", Letters, 8 March)....
Steven Rose claims that Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture is full of contradictions and misunderstandings, but this is actually more characteristic of Rose's review than Pagel's book (" 'Brain candy' is...
Regarding "Journalistic prejudice" (22 March). The article, about Australian media issues, is written by a Melbourne-based author...but the flag above it is New Zealand's. Granted, they are similar,...
An expert in the benefits new technology can bring to students, Amber Miro was regarded by colleagues and friends as "unfailingly positive".Ms Miro joined the London School of Economics as an IT...
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Goldsmiths/Edinburgh/HertfordshireProphet margin vanishesAn experiment that supposedly proved the existence of psychic powers has been challenged by a group of British psychologists. Academics at...
Crash course - If failure is not an option, students will never succeed
The growth in the proportion of young people participating in higher education has stalled after years of steady increases, according to new figures.
By Susan Woodward, for Campus Review
Lecturers from post-1992 universities in London are joining school teachers in a walk-out to protest against changes to their pensions.
Plans for students to apply to university after getting their grades have been abandoned in the face of opposition from schools and universities.