Members first, not factions
Regarding "No mandate for change" (Letters, 22 March): we are the current and next chairs of the University and College Union's further education committee and the chair of its higher education...
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Debased currency
The article on "post-autistic economics" in Germany ("Appliance of the dismal science", 29 March) describes the use of the term "autistic" in this context as "controversial", but it is worse than...
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Join the club
Times Higher Education singles out two recent developments as being significant for the future of "sciart": Cern's artists-in-residence programme and the MA in art and science at Central Saint...
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Genius envy
In her piece about the way in which academics allow their creativity to be controlled by unimaginative "bean counters" ("Creative vs accounting", 22 March), Amanda Goodall wonders how this hijack...
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Spirit level of the age
Congratulations to Sally Feldman for her spirited defence of media studies from the "vituperative attacks" of a "self-loathing" media ("Painful reflection", 22 March).Her argument is especially valid...
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Take with a pinch of salt
Your report that researchers at the University of Aberdeen have discovered how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) actually works to relieve severe psychological depression is to be welcomed ("Shock...
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All intents and purposes
Robert Barton has the strange blindness to brute facts that afflicts other neuro-reductionists ("Evolutionary battleground", Letters, 29 March). As Steven Rose points out, there is more to a human...
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Chris Wilkinson, 1940-2012
One of the most highly cited engineers in Scotland, Chris Wilkinson was an internationally recognised figure in the field of nanotechnology and on first-name terms with leading figures in research...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Brunel UniversityKhan-do attitudeA university business school is running an Easter "boot camp" to attract sixth-formers predicted to get at least AAB at A level. The three-day residential event at...
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Resetting the compass
Resourceful academies in the global South and East have much to teach the ‘developed’ North and West, Sir David Watson observes
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5 April 2012
Solitary course - The bill of fare for today’s ‘ideal’ scholar
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The three Rs: resources, research and Robin Hood
R&D and philanthropy are at the heart of a Turkish university’s ambitious plans. Matthew Reisz reports
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Head of Sciences Po found dead in New York hotel
Richard Descoings, the head of the Paris institution Sciences Po and one of the leading reformers in French higher education, has been found dead in a New York hotel room.
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Campus Review: New website not quite the face universities want to show
By Susan Woodward, for Campus Review