The week in higher education
• A British student has been "sold down the river" by the government, his mother has said, after his extradition to the US was approved by Theresa May, the home secretary. Richard O'Dwyer faces up to...
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From where I sit - Journalistic prejudice
Heard the one about the academic pondering obscure points of theory in his ivory tower while real people get on with real work in the real world? How about the saying: "Those who can, do; those who...
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Odds and quads
This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
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Appointments
University Campus SuffolkBill TancredA former athlete who represented Great Britain in the discus at two Olympic Games has been appointed director of sport and visiting professor of sports leadership...
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The Body Adorned: Dressing London
Are the curiosities of dress of various native peoples really so different from those of today’s London ‘tribes’, asks Matt Lodder
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Insecure in the knowledge
As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers
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Creative vs accounting
Allowing universities to be run by bean counters and bureaucrats is detrimental to academics' ingenuity and productivity, argues Amanda Goodall
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Dismantle the tower of 'edu-babble'
I am not at all surprised by the poor notices for the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which to me highlight the fact that the Higher Education Academy is probably unfit for purpose...
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Core expression
On 23 January, a meeting of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society at Queen Mary, University of London called to discuss "Sharia law and human rights" was disrupted before the invited speaker,...
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Prejudicial enquiries
You say that the Academic Reputation Survey is based on the "considered, expert judgement of senior, published academics" ("Informed opinion at the heart of the matter", Times Higher Education World...
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No mandate for change
In The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (1991), Albert O. Hirschman warns that a typical trope from the camp of reaction is that an action will produce, via a trail of unintended...
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Analysis of poverty is poor (1 of 2)
Your lead book review does no favours to those wary of the forthcoming research excellence framework ("A wealth of detail on a conundrum", 15 March). Howard Davies knows a bit about failure from his...
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Analysis of poverty is poor (2 of 2)
Howard Davies' astute comments on the REF's corrosive effects on the quality of academic writing remind me of Flannery O'Connor's observation: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities...
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Elite mission front
Regarding "Russell Group 'a more natural fit' " (15 March). There is surely only one word for the universities that have left the 1994 Group: splitters.Keith Flett, London
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John House, 1945-2012
John House was a passionate scholar, curator and art historian known for his boyish enthusiasm. His expertise in and keenness for 19th-century French painting were matched only by his enthusiasm as a...