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  2. Praise for our Prospectus

    Our Deputy Head of Prospectus Management, Angela Topping, was quick to respond to recent claims by the new Government-run student juries that some university prospectuses were "misleading" and "...

    #Laurie

  3. A sunshine state of affairs

    Florida's not all guns and gators, says Alan Ryan - it funds a liberal arts college

    #Alan Ryan
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  4. Off Piste: Reality check

    In the first in a series in which academics range beyond their area of expertise, philosopher Simon Blackburn proffers his top ten modern myths

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  6. Paul Wheeler, 1966-2008

    Colleagues have paid tribute to an "amazing" academic found dead earlier this month.Paul Wheeler, a senior lecturer in learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, had recently been...

    #People

  8. Burning questions for the RAE panels

    Your research assessment exercise report ("Panels ordered to shred all RAE records", 17 April) does not bring out the real problems sufficiently strongly. If notes must be destroyed after 20 days -...

    #Letters

  9. Allow us to work past 65

    An open letter to Bill RammellAs academics, mostly in our sixties, we consider ourselves active in research, teaching and administration. We have made, and can continue to make, a contribution to the...

    #Letters

  10. Diplomas are not a solution

    It was unlucky that Claudio Vignali's puff for diplomas ("I'm sold on diplomas", 17 April) was published the same day as leading examiners Edexcel's damning report on the new qualifications. As a...

    #Letters

  11. Librarians wielding lasers

    Libraries are having a hard time in the copyright crossfire. First Erik Ringmar ("Liberate and disseminate", 10 April) invites everyone to scan the holdings of their university library and release...

    #Letters

  12. Battling the rule of thumb 1

    I was pleased to read Frank Furedi's stand against texting ("It's a vxd question: why your lecture isn't as important as an SMS", 17 April) and saddened at stories of tutors choosing to ignore, or...

    #Letters

  13. Battling the rule of thumb 2

    Sorry, Frank. Having watched an 18-year-old produce an A-standard philosophy essay while wearing iPod earphones, watching The Simpsons and texting a friend, I recommend you not to worry that a little...

    #Letters

  14. Kat measures the cream

    Another week, another bunch of scientists strutting their stuff across your bibliometrics column ("Top 20 countries in clinical medicine based on citations per paper", 17 April). Complex beast, yes,...

    #Letters

  15. Chemistry alive and well

    In the article "Fashion victims" (17 April), you state "the slump (in the numbers studying chemistry) had already caused departments in some institutions - Queen Mary, University of London, and the...

    #Letters