Paul Ramsden ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed") raises a number of questions, some of which are addressed by Ann Mroz ("Hours and hours of reckoning", Leader, 11 August). However, two things...
I couldn't agree more with Ann Mroz: it's not about how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that counts.However, the bean counters are in the field already, so might I suggest...
I read with increasing concern Ruth Davies' letter ("Angels with dirty hands", 11 August).Let me register my interest. I trained and practised as a state registered nurse from 1968 to 1974, working...
Your article "We can't afford to be too choosy" (11 August) illustrates how easy it is to build a sensational story out of a private email.It might be useful, though, to set the record straight. Yes...
Ann Mroz's analysis of the effects of recent government policies (AAB and core-margin places) is correct: they will lead to the cementing of the new English Ivy League's exclusivity, "setting back...
Alan Ryan is a wise man, but his teaching formula has the wrong pig by the tail ("Too much information", 11 August). Try this: Teaching = Research minus Scholarship. If lectures and small-group...
"Spiteful book reviews" are, says William Gibson, "especially common among academics who have not written books themselves" (Letters, 11 August). Presumably, those who criticise The X Factor as...
I nominated the University of Poppleton's Twitter site as the most admired in higher education social media. Six tweets and 130 followers later, did the IT department lose the weekly auto-tweet...
Duncan Wu is impressed by an honest depiction of the emotional and physical harm we inflict and suffer
Will Brooker considers the comforting tropes of 'reality' TV present in BINTM and Jersey Shore
In a tribute to Adam Bell, John Cater, vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University, said that if there was anyone who did not like him, it was because they loved him instead.Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire...
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University of St AndrewsNow you see him...An undergraduate student has brought invisibility cloaks one step closer to reality by creating an "invisibility sphere" that is able to slow down light....
These instruments (see image, right) - inhaler, ether mask, bedpan, a syringe made by Philip Harris and Company and a device used during anaesthesia that contains a Sparklets bulb similar to those in...
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