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Frank Furedi makes for provocative reading, but what he interprets as a student looking for an "easy ride" may be a student with dyslexia exercising a "reasonable adjustment" in terms of the...
Frank Furedi makes for provocative reading, but what he interprets as a student looking for an "easy ride" may be a student with dyslexia exercising a "reasonable adjustment" in terms of the...
In The Public Intellectual , Frank Furedi argues that the public intellectual is an endangered species. Yet in his contributions to The Times Higher - for example, that on students being provided...
So "the very foundations of our democracy" are threatened by environmentalists (Soapbox, March 18)? A frightening claim, particularly when it is made with the democratic authority of an unelected...
Many thanks to Lord Taverne for his masterly exposition of the perils of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism begins by constructing a clear demarcation between its right-thinking self and "the Other", to...
Paul Ormerod repeats the common fallacy that the performance of US universities has "dramatically pulled away" from "Oxbridge, London School of Economics and the like" (Opinion, March 25). The latest...
If what the Council for Industry and ÌÇÐÄVlog is proposing is an all-embracing ethics-driven code of conduct for universities, well and good ("'Ethical' degrees get cool response" March 25)....
Alison Wolf asks: "Now, could someone address the shortage of science and modern language students?" (Opinion, March 18). Yes - you, the universities, could. Help make the GCSE and A-level courses...
Paul Whiteley's opinion that "Education is not an election issue" (Soapbox, March 25) is contradicted by your report of the survey of student voting intentions in the same issue ("Lib Dems top on...
I am always pleased when creative writing in universities hits the headlines (Features, March 25). After all, as a mode of investigating the world, it has had a home in academic circles since the...

 ICT in higher education Published in The Times Higher on April 29 2005  Leader  "Failure to satisfy student ICT expectations will dent recruitment efforts" Do you read me, cafelattia?  Which...

 Learning skills in higher education Published in The Times Higher on May 13 2005, in association with Palgrave Macmillan  Leader  "How realistic is it to seek to instil in students skills that,...

 Bologna: a dream to reality Published in The Times Higher on April 1 2005  Introduction   2010: a shared space odyssey  As her country prepares to host the key ministerial meeting in May,...
A European Court ruling on EUstudents' eligibility for loans while studying in Britain is just one recent change that could affect the fortunes of UK universities, reports Harriet Swain Karim Mijal...
With a general election looming, Huw Richards speaks to an academic about the internet's effect on political participation Stephen Coleman is one of those academics fated to spend part of his time...
In the last in our series, English and Scots team leaders meet the challenge of taking student catering from stodgy past to cosmopolitan future Lizzie Anderson of Stirling University's catering...