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Off Piste – Drawing inspiration

Austin Williams on the possibilities and limitations of ‘taking a line for a walk’

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 22 August 2013

To the Departmental Secretary

Just keep talking

Space for reflection is an important issue in a noise-fixated society (“If silence is golden, we should invest in it during seminars”, Opinion, 8 August). However, I’m not sure that I concur with...

Painfully slow initiation

Far from ignoring the social divide apparent between our and our students’ use of social media and computers generally, many of us have been trying to explain this to enthusiastic innovators for...

Lamps go out over cosmos

Sarah Coakley’s project of talking up the role of cooperation and sacrifice in evolution is timely and has important implications beyond theology (“Giving but not yielding”, 8 August). But it would...

Anxious wait for results

Your review of the impending reforms to A levels in England (“Remaking the grades”, 15 August) refers to their potentially negative consequences on many universities’ efforts to widen the...

Proof lacks flavour

There is, as you report, concern on the part of a number of contributors to Jiscmail’s plagiarism discussion list about the standard of English expected of new international students on arrival and...

Poor results as market moves the goalposts

Allow me, as a former Millwall and Queens Park Rangers footballer, to expand on your editorial on the effects of the market on football and education (“The market just around the corner”, Leader, 8 ...

Robert Street, 1920-2013

A prominent physicist and former University of Western Australia vice-chancellor has died

Appointments - 22 August 2013

Gresham CollegeBelinda Jack“Reading takes us out of ourselves and takes us into someone else’s mind, soul and body, it has that power. It gives us access to the past and ideas about the future. It’s...

THE Scholarly Web - 22 August 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Campus round-up - 22 August 2013

Source: AlamyFresh as the day they went downAntarctic shipwrecks such as Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance could still be lying fully preserved at the bottom of the ocean, researchers have suggested...

News in brief - 22 August 2013

Eastern EuropeForeigners like their medicineInstitutions in Eastern Europe are taking in more and more medical students from abroad. According to data from the Unesco Institute for Statistics,...

Grant winners

National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Gavin D. PerkinsInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £1,8,762Protocolised trial of invasive and non-...