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Sir David Bell takes aim at teacher training policy

Reading v-c finds government attitudes ‘puzzling and troubling’

Academic freedom protects academics from each other

There is an essential difference between saloon-bar provocation and paradigm-shifting scholarship, argues Terence Kealey

7 November 2013

Poison penmanship - Rude words, caustic comments and the application of academic vitriol

THE Scholarly Web - 7 November 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Charles McKean, 1946-2013

A passionate and outspoken advocate for Scottish architecture has died

News in brief - 7 November 2013

United StatesJobs to go at EdinboroA US university is to make more than 30 staff redundant in an effort to reduce its multimillion-dollar budget deficit. Edinboro University in Pennsylvania announced...

Odds and quads - 7 November 2013

This hand-coloured aquatint print (above, right) is based on an oil painting by John Webber, an artist on James Cook’s third voyage to the South Seas, depicting a Maori settlement in Queen Charlotte...

Campus round-up - 7 November 2013

Source: GettyHaka backersThe performance of the New Zealand rugby league team during the World Cup 2013 is being monitored by students. Postgraduates from the University of Hull’s department of sport...

Grant winners - 7 November 2013

National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Edmund LambInstitution: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustValue: £2,004,482Accuracy of...

News in brief - 7 November 2013

Science fundingByrne fired up over ring-fencingThe capital element of the science budget should be ring-fenced to avoid the risks of “announcement-based politics”, according to Labour’s new shadow...

Anything to eat with that?

“Hurrah for David Cameron.”That was how Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, responded to the prime minister’s praise for such so-called “Mickey Mouse” degrees as Golf Course...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 7 November 2013

Tough choice

You suggest that art history may be considered (albeit unfairly) a “soft” subject (The week in higher education, 31 October). In Trinity College, Cambridge’s list of preferred subjects, however, it...

Pay it forward

“USS’ multibillion-pound deficit could leave staff footing the bill” (News, 31 October) reported allegations of a “black hole” in the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quoted the view that it...

One voice

In their comprehensive article on current threats to the discipline of English (“What happens in the tempest?”, 31 October), Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi make a number of points that require...