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  1. Stick to scholarship

    You recently highlighted how 130 gifted Brazilian science students have been pushed into the arms of US universities by the UK Border Agency's English-language requirements ("Brazil's brightest head...

    #Letters

  2. Principle of non-violence

    Martha Biondi claims that the Harvard University student strike in April 1969 had as one of its demands the creation of black studies ("Let academic freedom ring", 9 August). No, it didn't. I was...

    #Letters

  3. No hiding place (1 of 2)

    Regarding "So long UK, thanks for all the loans: we'll be in touch ..." (News, 9 August): just 9 per cent of European Union students are in arrears, not almost half as stated in the article's picture...

    #Letters

  4. No hiding place (2 of 2)

    What a "surprise" to read of the threat posed by EU student loans. This has been obvious from the start of this ill-conceived policy. But such practical considerations are irrelevant to the...

    #Letters

  5. Adversarial uncertainty (1 of 3)

    John Radford ("Precise definitions", Letters, 2 August) is correct in his general thesis. However, his example of the slight contretemps between Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls ("The...

    #Letters

  6. Adversarial uncertainty (2 of 3)

    There have been two letters from Jennifer Jenkins (26 July and 9 August) in which she has accused Michael Hollas of imagining there is some "golden age" of correct English.In his letter ("Singularly...

    #Letters

  7. Adversarial uncertainty (3 of 3)

    At the risk of incurring more sarcasm from Jennifer Jenkins, why is the correct use of Greek and Latin neuter nouns being construed as a change in the use of English? Do global Englishes have...

    #Letters

  9. Leader: Avoid the shadows of doubt

    To maintain its reputation for trustworthiness, the academy must ensure that its scholarly scepticism is not misapplied

  11. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  13. The week in higher education

    • Opinions differ on the best indicator that we are in the silly season, but one might be the writing in August of news stories that had already been published in January. Nicely fitting this bill...

    #News
    #The week in HE

  14. From where I sit - The red (tape) and the black

    Imagine a university that receives a fixed 2.2 per cent of the tax revenue of a rapidly growing economy's richest state. This is the case for the University of Campinas (universally known as Unicamp...

    #From Where I Sit
    #Opinion

  15. Odds and quads

    This bolon harp would traditionally have been used by the Malinke people of Mali and Guinea in hunting ceremonies and before battle.

    #News
    #Odds and quads