Author: Gill Jones and Anne StokesEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 176Price: £19.99ISBN 9780230201958This book will leave most practitioners feeling dinosaurish, as we gaze from the...
Editors: Sarah Stringer, Laurence Church, Susan Davison and Maurice LipsedgeEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 256Price: £24.99ISBN 9780199561988At the opposite end of the...
Editors: Dennis Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky and Stephanie AustinEdition: SecondPublisher: SagePages: 496Price: £75.00 and £.99ISBN 9781847871725 and 1732I must confess to having been turned off the...
Many British academics will agree with the stand taken by John Gray at the plant science department of the University of Cambridge ("Peer review teeters as experts struggle with burden of work", 21...
Your article "Treasure troves" (7 May) was a justified celebration of the valuable and interesting library holdings of many British universities. For many in London it will have raised only hollow...
It is important not to impose a restrictive version of academic freedom that hides the power interests driving expert voices behind the veil of peer review ("Don't fear open access", Letters, 21 May...
A right to "absolute" free speech would come at the expense of others' right to exist ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May). It is an inherently regressive idea that...
My codpiece almost fell off when I saw the crude sexism displayed in your headline "Grants and pants - Lord May on why women are less thrusting" (News, 21 May). The writer is female, so perhaps a...
On reading the long list of website comments on the story "Lecturer apologises to researcher for swapping names in grant application", 14 May, I was, not for the first time, astonished at the sound...
Alan Ryan ("The trouble with tables", 21 May) writes with his customary acerbic wit on the absurdity of attempting to rank UK universities on single scales in terms of quality. I was astonished by...
We are writing to support protests against decisions made by Imperial College London in the light of government funding cuts. One consequence is a proposed reduction in college-funded foreign-...
Ann Singleton et al are to be congratulated on their principled stance on the UK Border Agency's (UKBA) new regulations ("We won't collude with efforts to use the academy to police immigration", 7...
The Reith Lectures have long been a premier platform for public intellectuals, but, Matthew Reisz asks, are scholarly communicators endangered in an era of dumbing down, media fragmentation and...
Like the communities they serve, Northern Ireland's two universities have put inclusiveness and cohesion at the top of the agenda. But some elements of the past linger, Hannah Fearn finds
The culture shock experienced by non-religious state-educated undergraduates at elite universities sometimes sends them running into the arms of Christian Unions. In seeking supportive friends, they...