The week in books
America: Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds, professor of international history and fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge. Allen Lane, £30.00, ISBN 9781846140563"Tracing the long dialectic between...
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In Reckless Hands: Skinner v Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
Susan Currell examines the story behind the legal battle against forced sterilisation of convicts
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Leeds Met v-c resigns
Simon Lee will leave at the end of the academic year. Melanie Newman reports
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From where I sit - Moving deckchairs on the Titanic
British academics contemplating the research assessment exercise over a glass of something strong would do well to consider the alternative: working in a university system that makes no attempt to...
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We shall not be moved!
Happiness is an academic job at Poppleton. That is the conclusion to be drawn from the recent joint report from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association and Universities UK on staff...
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Brooking the chasm
Sally Feldman urges partnerships with both Israel's and Palestine's academies
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Off Piste: The queue's the thing
National Theatre-going regular Rivka Isaacson finds compelling drama in the early morning cast of characters waiting to buy day tickets
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Leader: The light of learning in dark days
Keeping faith in the academy's core missions of research and education is the best way to serve students, society and the sector
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Tom Graham, 1945-2008
Tom Graham, university librarian at Newcastle University, has died.He was brought up in Glasgow, graduated in history from the University of Glasgow and then decided to train as a librarian by...
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Higher education research is on the up 1
There are some interesting contradictions regarding higher education research. Your feature ("Practise what you preach", 8 January) suggests that research into higher education in the UK is little...
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Higher education research is on the up 2
I am genuinely baffled by the assertion that higher education research in the UK languishes in the doldrums.At the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers' conference in Pavia last September, a...
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RAE is not a fair game 1
The peculiar methodology of the research assessment exercise was always likely to produce strange league tables ("Reviewers raise concerns about RAE gameplaying", 8 January). Take the composition of...
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RAE is not a fair game 2
Your disturbing facts about sport and the RAE are pointed, highly relevant and continue to reinforce one's view that this country still has some way to go in its approach to sport.In my experience,...
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Slip-up on Freud
David Pilgrim criticises Paul McHugh for failing to grasp the facts concerning Freud's "original claim about the high prevalence of incest survivors on his couch" in his book Try to Remember:...
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Mathematical problems
On page 15 of the edition of 8 January, you apologise for the mathematical errors in the previous week's report on the RAE results (News in brief). Immediately above this, you report that "more than...