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  1. Inimical ballot (1 of 2)

    In June last year, Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, wrote in the New Statesman that "the prospect of 800,000 teachers in schools, colleges and universities being on...

    #Letters

  2. Inimical ballot (2 of 2)

    Jane Hardy claims to write in a personal capacity ("Pension protection", Letters, 26 January), yet she is standing at the forthcoming UCU national executive committee elections as a member of the...

    #Letters

  3. Art not academe, again

    The touchingly recurrent motif of a university core executive afflicted by incipient narcolepsy informs Peter Hill's assessment of the divergent purposes of the art school and the university ("The...

    #Letters

  4. Lean pickings

    "Lean" approaches to cost reduction work best when an organisation has clear objectives with clear ideas on how specific activities contribute (or fail to contribute) to achieving them ("In hungry...

    #Letters

  5. Personal comments

    It was the students who pushed for anonymous marking at the University of East Anglia, brought in, as I understand it, due to the "fairness" argument ("Attributive justice", 26 January). However, the...

    #Letters

  6. For He, just add electrons

    Has Peter B. Baker not heard of alpha particles ("Compound the error", Letters, 26 January)? These are helium nuclei. Just add electrons. No need for chemistry, alchemy or nuclear fusion: radioactive...

    #Letters

  7. Creep show

    Am I alone in my profound discomfort regarding middle-aged men employing substantially younger women in advisory roles, whose main job seems to be to tell them how inspirational and visionary they...

    #Letters

  9. Film review: A Dangerous Method

    The master of 'body horror' turns to the monsters of the mind in an exploration of psychoanalysis. Davina Quinlivan investigates

    #Culture
    #Film

  11. David Barron, 1935-2012

    David Barron was one of the "founding fathers" of computer science and was known as a bon viveur by his friends and colleagues.Professor Barron was born on 9 January 1935 and studied mathematics at...

    #Obituary
    #People

  12. THE Scholarly Web

    Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

    #Opinion
    #THE Scholarly Web

  13. Campus round-up

    Manchester Metropolitan UniversityNow dig thisMembers of the public have been invited to take part in an archaeological dig on the site of a university's new campus. The project at Manchester...

    #Campus round-up
    #News

  15. 2 February 2012

    No stick required - The academy, WikiLeaks and ‘soft power’: hegemony without the heat