Truly avant-garde
I was disappointed with the reader responses to āLines of investigationā and āOpus versus outputā, your articles about artistic practice as research (7 March). Of the two professors emeritus numbered...
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Real-world concerns
The Financial Timesā Michael Skapinker queries the effectiveness of online lectures (The week in higher education, 21 March): āhow long are people watching before they flip to Facebook?ā As anyone...
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Fragile position
Chris Ormell, with his ākey incoherencies that have quietly enabled so much palpable retrogressionā (āInfinite regressionā, Letters, 21 March), seems to have forgotten that people who live in glass...
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21 - 27 March 2013 - The week in higher education
Anyone familiar with the views of Edzard Ernst may be surprised to learn that he was on the board of the journal Homeopathy. But this cognitive dissonance was ended last week when the journal sacked...
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A greater currency than cash
When pension pots are full, generosity would fit the zeitgeist better than salary top-ups
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Build local networks to capture EU cash
Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told.
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Female professor appointed
We are delighted to confirm that our university is to appoint its very first Professor of Female Representation.In a statement announcing the new position, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Creative reading
Creative writing is surreptitiously transforming English as a university subject, argues Nicholas Royle. But its inexorable rise could bring benefits, including a new form of ācreative readingā,...
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Awards and promotions
University of LeedsPaul StewartāI had a tear in my eye,ā said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...
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THE Scholarly Web - Hashtag hustings
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Mexican regionās primary concerns
A powerful union, weak teaching and outmoded curricula are hampering progress. MattĀ Krupnick reports from Oaxaca
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Titans of sculptureās natural splendour
A pairing of key works by Rodin and Moore points to their shared fascination with organic forms, writes Alexander Massouras
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Uneasy lies the head
Times Higher Educationās annual pay survey shows that with a few exceptions, viceāchancellorsā remuneration did not rise vertiginously in 2011-12 - aĀ good thing politically. But despite reasonable...
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Alan Ryan - Political lottery: it could be useful
Alan Ryan asks if a lottery would result in better and more effective politics