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Newcastle University's involvement in running a local sixth form is an inspiring example of the academic partnerships the Government wants to see more of, Michael North discovers As head of the sixth...
Newcastle University's involvement in running a local sixth form is an inspiring example of the academic partnerships the Government wants to see more of, Michael North discovers As head of the sixth...
Booklists are at the heart of the academic experience. In the first of a four-part series, Harriet Swain investigates how they have changed in the new environment of a wired world and working...
Carol Dyhouse charts the ascent of woman in higher education over the course of the past century What kind of images do most people have of student life? Over much of the past century the popular...
Mandy Garner meets a maverick historian who wants colleagues to stop shying away from urgent global issues such as climate change and genocide Mark Levene is a man with an acute awareness of time....
With top-up fees about to drive up the price of a degree, the Open University is becoming the cost-conscious school-leaver's first port of call, writes John Kirkaldy The traditional image of the Open...
" Students at Sheffield University have been offered ex gratia payments totalling more than ?22,000 for the "regrettable difficulties" they experienced on a degree course " - The Times Higher,...
Last week's leader article "Trouble in store for discounts?" was timely, particularly in the light of your report of an apparent lack of clarity in the sector about possible changes to student...
You reported last week that the National Union of Students "may sponsor a legal challenge if any institution proposed to cut fees in clearing". The NUS is fully aware that universities are,...
Bob Brecher's piece on the facts of life for many students is a triumph of dogma over reality ("Why are the best degrees for sale?", Working Knowledge, January 13). The idea that university education...
One institution is allegedly about to have its foundation degree "branded a failure" by the Quality Assurance Agency ("Audit critic is lone UK failure", January 13) and - by some curious insight...
Why should the views of Richard Dawkins on religion be "controversial" and raise an eyebrow when considered alongside other (by inference, non-controversial) religious views (People, January 13)?...
Peter Brophy uses the recent US court case on the teaching of intelligent design in schools to bolster his suggestion that The Times Higher stop discussing this issue (Letters, January 13). The...
Which parallel universe do employers inhabit ("20% or it's chaos, unions vow", January 13)? In most years, the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association consults its members on the possible...
Kunal Basu's thesis on race and science is based on a sociological argument that scientific knowledge may not be truth but is produced for, and serves the interests of, dominant social groups ("...
The report "An academic take on model villages" and leader article "Key to the door" (January 13) highlight the plight of academic and other university staff unable to afford homes near their places...