From Where I Sit - Procrustean measures
The University of Sydney's "underperforming staff" redeployment fiasco, which has unravelled over the past six months, is the latest in a series of rationalisations and narrow-minded governance that...
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Odds and quads
These items - now owned by the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich - are all linked to the crazily ambitious French composer and conductor Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-60).
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityRosie MeekTeesside's newly appointed professor of psychology and criminal justice said she was ready for a new challenge despite having spent five "enjoyable and productive" years...
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21 June 2012
High-brow humour - The campus novel: a comic brew with a sobering bite
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Yoko Ono: TO THE LIGHT
An exhibition showcasing five decades of Yoko Ono’s work downplays her dark side in favour of more uplifting, regenerative themes, finds Helena Reckitt
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Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
Urban centres across the world were built with racial separation in mind, Wendy Pullan discovers
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Failing the Turing test
The REF's mendacious language and mismeasurements will recognise neither singular world-changing brilliance nor the value inherent in all scholarship, Fred Inglis argues. This bureaucratic beast,...
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Publishing tail must not wag research dog
Regarding "Let's ask profitable questions" (Leader, 7 June): the urgent issue today is not publisher profits but research access for all would-be users, not just those whose institutions can afford...
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Self-destructive tendencies (1 of 2)
Following the recent decision by delegates at the University and College Union congress to resume the "work-to-rule" action by staff on pensions, the employers have (entirely predictably) broken off...
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Self-destructive tendencies (2 of 2)
As a delegate to the UCU congress, I was struck by the stark contrast between the views expressed and supported by the majority of delegates and those obtained by the general secretary in her...
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Peer (and MP) review
I wonder if the Campaign for Science and Engineering knows enough history to recognise Benito Mussolini's model of a "corporate state"? ("Loss of science expertise feared", News, 14 June.) The group...
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Creative with facts
Three cheers for Geraint Wiggins' plea for creativity in the sciences ("Hidden in plain sight", 7 June). But why is the situation so bad that this notion seems odd to so many?The source of the...
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Final bastion of freedom
The brochure for the 1936 Barcelona Peoples' Olympiad is indeed a poignant reminder of the tragedy that was the Spanish Civil War (Odds and Quads, 14 June). Barcelona was the last city to fall to...
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Gluttons for punishment
Polly Jones, in her insightful review of Orlando Figes' Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (Books, 14 June), calls for further explanation of why some victims of...
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Choice cut
Million+ has not said that post-1992 universities would lose out because they would be in direct competition for places with private institutions ("Private providers set to go head to head with...