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Tasmanian Devil
A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846
How can academe attract more black students when its street cred lags way behind football and rap music? Angela Foster investigates There are four times as many black footballers as there are black...
The UK's first masters in activism aims to help its students foster social change, but can such skills be taught? Matt Salusbury finds out Can universities teach people to be activists or is the...
...about tackling global warming? Despite talk of a volte-face on climate change by Bush, US scientists remain sceptical of his Administration's commitment. Stephen Phillips reports As issues that...
Last week's Letters page in The Times Higher contained complaints about unsatisfactory book reviews. In the interests of comprehensiveness, we now bring you a further selection of critical...
Sally Hunt's campaigning piece (Opinion, January 19) only touches on the main battle that will be fought in the coming University and College Union elections. It is true, as she says, that the...
I was interested in Sally Hunt's response to the anger over the handling of the higher education pay dispute ("Hustings bring out anger over pay dispute", January 12). It boils down to this: union...
Birmingham University and College Union is extremely concerned at the situation in the School of Health Sciences and is dismayed that the university's response fails to acknowledge the extent of the...
Your article about the School of Health Sciences at Birmingham University contains a response by the university.JThis says that the two stress reports were confidential "other than to its senior...
Milton Wainwright (Letters, January 19) asks: "Can someone tell us the name of the philistine who suggested the use of this bogus metric (journal impact factor) to determine research quality?" Well,...
We can't usefully discuss academic freedom without considering the forces arrayed against it. These include: managerialism - the essence of which is to put those in authority against those promoting...
I was somewhat confused by the claim that professorial posts "elude" women, and the quote that a "glass ceiling effect is still evident" ("Sex parity 50 years off", January 19). According to the...
Your report on the University of Central England's research bemoaning media undergraduates' lack of critical readiness ("Students unable to cope with media studies' rigour", January 19) lost much in...
In his admirable Against the Flow: Reflections of an Individualist , Samuel Brittan observes that he will say nothing about Nash equilibrium - the idea that won John Nash the Nobel Prize for...