From Where I Sit - Appliance of the dismal science
Anyone who has studied or taught economics is aware of the highly theoretical nature of the subject. For some, this is its appeal. Indeed, my old professor in the discipline once told me that the...
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Odds and quads
This 19th-century stuffed cyclopic piglet and plaster cast of a rattlesnake - brought to Scotland by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1904 - are among the strange and sometimes shocking natural...
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Appointments
Washington University in St LouisJennifer R. SmithThe future dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St Louis wants to use her elected position to "promote the education...
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Get back in the saddle
In the academy all must have prizes, but nothing breeds success like failure. Steven Schwartz argues that students gain more from blind alleys than from victory processions, as failure engenders the...
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Children's Lives
Hugh Cunningham ponders our enduring nostalgia for childhoods past and asks if we still yearn for a Romantic ideal
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Government demands that separate work and values discredit us
To be ethical, a funding system must recognise that what universities do supports the common good, argues Thomas Docherty
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Sorbonne année
Howard Davies on league tables and rebranding exercises
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The spaces between
A fleeting glimpse of a renowned soprano ignited Peter Crisp's lifelong love of song cycles and lieder...but left him pining for an overture
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Printing pressed
Dissemination of the written word is changing as e-books proliferate. But how will it affect academics and the publishing industry? Andrew Franklin reads between the lines
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (1 of 3)
We wish to take issue with Paul Ramsden's argument concerning the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ("A poor policy poorly managed leaves little to show for £315 million", 15 March). We...
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (2 of 3)
While a full account of the legacy of the Cetls is not possible in a brief letter, one important example is the large number of higher education staff who, through engagement with the centres, have...
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (3 of 3)
While the £315 million funding for the Cetl project was the largest of any recent initiative that failed to improve university teaching standards, it is by no means unique.Greybeards and silver...
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Results of corruption
Your report on a global study of academic salaries ("You won't get rich (but you might get a free turkey)", 22 March) notes that academic moonlighting is rife in low-paid countries. The reality is...
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Tolerate this, what's next?
Ruth Deech has done a great service by highlighting the failures of some universities to respect the laws that protect students on campus from intimidation, harassment and defamation ("Hate has no...
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Evolutionary battleground (1 of 2)
Steve Fuller objects to being called an anti-evolutionist and then goes on to name Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as one of the heroes of his book, Humanity 2.0 ("The Darwin delusion", Letters, 8 March)....