Computer or Manager? Spot the Difference
Several leading national newspapers were quick to pick up on the news that our current Head of Computation, Professor Norbert Norbert, has designed a "university management computer" which is...

Several leading national newspapers were quick to pick up on the news that our current Head of Computation, Professor Norbert Norbert, has designed a "university management computer" which is...
When it comes to grants, Tim Birkhead knows just how Kevin the Teenager feels
In performing magic, academic and author Dale Salwak found a demanding calling that rewarded him with joy and self-discovery
Always controversial, the World University Rankings are nevertheless an invaluable quality-marker for the sector
Brian Bercusson, one of the world's leading authorities on European labour law, has died.Although he was born in Montreal in 1947 and initially educated in Canada and Israel, Professor Bercusson...
In your comprehensive analysis of the Bologna Process you state "the one-year masters offered by UK universities could be seen as minimalist, even lazy" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....
No discussion of the masters degree is complete without taking note of another peculiarity of English - though less so Scottish - education, namely the specialised sixth form, which transfers to...
I am disappointed that no challenge was presented to the ignorant views of the blogger and Bruce Charlton who claim that feminism is "bullshit" and a "stupid academic fad" ("US blogger plots graph to...
Bruce Charlton, a reader in evolutionary psychiatry, who for some reason is quick to point out that he has an MA in English literature, informs us that in the past "at some point, the humanities...
It is ironic that your US blogger should claim that Marxism is dead, and that it had very little basis as an economic theory, at the very time that capitalist economists and commentators are widely...
In their attacks on recently discredited and declining "isms" such as Marxism and feminism, Bruce Charlton and the unnamed blogger might have mentioned a few more examples such as capitalism,...
Robert Johnson Jr proposes a consumer guide to university rankings and suggests that the ÌÇÐÄVlog-QS World University Rankings would deserve to be highly rated in any such consumer...
Further to your report on the launch of the New Joint Negotiating Committee for ÌÇÐÄVlog Staff (JNCHES) (The Week in ÌÇÐÄVlog, 2 October), there is absolutely no confusion in our...
Dave Kimber cites the "Sternberg" controversy as a case for prejudice against the publication of intelligent design research papers in established peer-reviewed journals (Letters, 2 October). The...
Though I welcome Conservative Shadow Universities Minister Adam Afriyie's desire for "more and better information to help students choose degree courses that are most likely to lead to a graduate...