Oxbridge in a tin
Any brand - whether it's a tin of baked beans or an ancient university - is dependent upon what people think about it (Letters, 13 March). Yes, people have been of the opinion that Heinz Baked Beans...
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Subject loyalty needed
We are dismayed by the attitude of the British Sociological Association ("V-c upbraided for plans to cut social sciences at Keele", 6 March). You report that the BSA will not accommodate a seminar at...
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Rumours of its death 1
In his review of Thomas Docherty's The English Question or Academic Freedoms (Books, 20 March), Roy Harris says comparative philology was a moribund subject by the first half of the 20th century. I...
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Rumours of its death 2
I too have read Thomas Docherty's The English Question or Academic Freedoms. Like your reviewer I found the English therein somewhat strange. Perhaps Docherty might be prevailed upon to read a little...
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Still second among equals
Academe could become a largely 'female' profession by 2020. But although women are taking over at lower levels, they continue to struggle to break into top jobs. Is this due to persistent bias or are...
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How do they manage?
Most people enter academe to delve into a subject, not to manage. To improve personnel administration, universities have beefed up HR departments with staff and strategies from outside campus. Hannah...
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Critical thinker
Sari Nusseibeh was Arafat's man in Jerusalem and spent time in jail accused of spying for Saddam, but the philosopher and advocate of non-violence sees himself primarily as an educator, he tells...
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27 March 2008
Is it a patriarchal conspiracy or is it just me? - The gender gap in British universities
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Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences
Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin’s great defender, epitomises our image of the new public face of Victorian science. A self-made professional, researching and politicking furiously, Huxley wrote...
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Institutional heavy hitters in molecular biology and genetics
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
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Student numbers are at risk as UK demographics shift
Universities will have to ‘seize new markets’ to remain competitive. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Where fans put Franz before the archduke
Wikipedia reveals not the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ but the rule of the mob, argues Tara Brabazon
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Comparative but not superlative
Roy Harris is bemused by a dense, ill-tempered screed on the English language as oppressor
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First impressions competition: March 20 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a satire on nineteenth-century French society:“The little town of Verrières could pass for one of the...