Clear thought about access lost in row (1 of 4)
The controversy over Les Ebdon's appointment as director of the Office for Fair Access has obscured the most important question: what is Offa for?For 2012 entry, it has collected about 0 access...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (2 of 4)
The debate around the appointment of the next director of fair access risks diverting attention from the successful efforts of all universities and colleges to widen access to higher education....
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Clear thought about access lost in row (3 of 4)
Might journalistic propriety have been better served in last week's issue by a bracketed reference, latched in place somewhere among the flurry of pieces on and opinions about Les Ebdon, to the fact...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (4 of 4)
Mike Goldstein's extravagant encomium for Les Ebdon misses the point (Letters, 23 February). Ebdon is on record as advocating that some students should be admitted to universities by having their A-...
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Consent agenda
The story of the Boston College subpoenas is a complicated one and understandably THE's account is incomplete ("Law and academy clash in the long shadow of the gun", 16 February). For instance, the...
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If it ain't broke, don't bin it
Timothy Gowers recently wrote about his decision not to work with Elsevier and his wish for an alternative to the academic journal as a tool for evaluating, sharing and preserving scholarship ("...
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Gift of tongues freely taken
"Arts and humanities offer Hobson's choice" (23 February) paints a gloomy and misleading picture of the health of modern languages in UK universities. The University and College Union survey Choice...
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Film review: Khodorkovsky
A film about Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is surprising in its frankness, says Philip Dodd
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TV review: Those Who Kill
Matt Hills enjoys spotting the overlap as the Danish crime genre continues to bring home the bacon
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Daphne Brooker, 1927-2012
Described by former students as a "one-woman dynasty" and by colleagues as a standard-setter in her discipline, Daphne Brooker had a reputation for driving students to maximise their potential.After...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of KentDoctoral study of crime paysA university has received almost 80 applications for a three-year doctoral programme in cultural and global criminology, which is being supported by...
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1 March 2012
Myths and monsters - Mapping the terra incognita of the UK’s private sphere
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Settlement boost for PhD-level students
The Home Secretary has exempted PhD-level jobs from a new pay threshold preventing lower-paid workers from settling in the UK.
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'Little evidence' that wider access succeeds on underprivileged, researchers claim
The expansion of higher education over the past 15 years has largely benefited middle-class rather than working-class children, a study has suggested.