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Your editorial fingers are, as uncannily as ever, on the pulse of the profession and the wider national mood (Books, THES, August 18). In a week when the academic disinclinations of Britain's...
Your editorial fingers are, as uncannily as ever, on the pulse of the profession and the wider national mood (Books, THES, August 18). In a week when the academic disinclinations of Britain's...
I was encouraged to see that Agony Aunt (Teaching, THES, August 18) was approached by a new research supervisor seeking advice on how to build a good rapport with students, but deeply depressed by...
The Quality Assurance Agency report on allegations against University of Derby operations in Israel raises issues the sector needs to address urgently ("Minister says UK tarred by Derby affair", THES...
It is not true that the QAA 1998 audit of the University of Derby's link with Israel failed to spot the weaknesses on which we reported earlier this month. As with many such links we found strengths...
Robert Walls perpetrates against university teachers the oldest libel in the book by equating contact hours with the total number of working hours (Letters, THES, August 18). All teachers have to...
The decision of India's University Grants Commission to introduce a degree course for the Hindu priesthood ("Liberals attack priests' degree", THES, August 11) is not only imprudent, but may have...
Kingston had a similar experience to Durham University with the Heritage Lottery Fund ("Lottery rejects castle repairs", THES, August 11). Last January, I applied for Pounds 78,000 to support the...
As the only person in my university who seems not to have changed his German spelling, I am heartened by Frankfurter Allgemeine and Deutscher Hochschulverband support ("Germans say no to simplified...
John Stein turned down Laura Spence. He is developing a test to identify smart students for Oxford Laura Spence has done brilliantly to get five As, despite the furore that followed Gordon Brown's...
Jeremy Hoad asks why universities spring extra costs on postgrad students, often when they can least afford them Consider this. You walk into a car showroom, choose a car, look at the price on the...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who once had presidential pretensions: " The man was tall and so thin he seemed always to...
Jorge Luis Borges: The Total Library
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Ancient Mesopotamia
Oberammergau
Ever Since Adam and Eve