Architects of their own woes
Responsibility for the problems in higher education may partly lie with some of the philosophies that prevail in the academic community itself. There is currently a lot of criticism of the...
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Newman's evergreen truths
"The secret to saving our universities" (14 July) reminded me of these lines from John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University."If then a practical end must be assigned to a university course, I say...
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Far from ideal
It may well be true that "Reading Aristotle can roll back the tide of relativism" (21 July), but I wonder how far Socrates and Plato can be pressed into service in the "struggle against subjectivism...
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Unruly humanities scholars threaten the discipline, event hears
An ill-disciplined bunch? Academics in the humanities were wrong to claim that their work is 'inherently disruptive' (Picture credit: Kobal)Academics who celebrate "indiscipline" over basic...
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Film review: Poetry
Duncan Wu considers how the quiet dignity of a veteran actress creates an impressive drama
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Phil Scott, 1953-2011
As well as being an avid fan of Sunderland Football Club and a keen mountain biker, Phil Scott was strongly committed to science education.It was this passion that led him from the classroom to the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of AberdeenWicked switch of the WestResearchers have discovered a DNA "switch" that turns on certain genes in cells that may show that Europeans are more predisposed to binge on fatty food...
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Odds and quads
These are among the more unusual items held by the John Hay Library at Brown University on Rhode Island.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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28 July 2011
Seeds of knowledge - The apps putting scholarship in the palm of your hand
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EPSRC starts to impose order on its universe
Some fields gain, some lose as council adjusts funding to ‘shape capability’. Paul Jump reports
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Mission impossible? Willetts to ‘convince arts and humanities how much we love them’
David Willetts has set out a three-point “to do†list for the coming months, making it a priority to convince academics in the arts and humanities “how much we love themâ€.
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Abertay Dundee announces retirement of suspended principal - again
The University of Abertay Dundee has reconfirmed the controversial retirement of its suspended principal Bernard King, and said that all legal claims between the two parties have been withdrawn.
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Dead heat in Cambridge vote on Willetts
A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament†over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.