An unsure vet
The possibility of universities "capping" or otherwise restricting - "vetting", "pre-selecting" - grant applications is clearly now on the horizon ("REF may lead to restrictions on grant applications...
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Laws a-leaping
So Alan Sokal (Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax, 13 March) continues to invite anyone who believes the laws of physics are "mere social conventions" to try jumping from his 21st-floor apartment. If...
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A pitch for top city 1
Those of us who enjoy living and working in Norwich were astonished that the city was not near the top of your Halifax-Times Higher Education table for quality of life ("Where the grass is greener",...
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A pitch for top city 2
May I suggest a simplified quality-of-life table. It has only three criteria, against which I rank my own institution. The first is low property prices - on this Wolverhampton scores well. The second...
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Details are devilish
Dame Fiona Caldicott, Principal of Somerville College, Oxford (Letters, 13 March), seems inadvertently to imply that the opponents of the proposed Joint Resource Allocation Mechanism cannot have...
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Saudi hopes and fears
In the article "Imperial signs Saudi deal as first step into Gulf" (13 March), we are told by the UK Higher Education International Unit that all academic staff are to engage with the process of...
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A logo for going forward
Can there be a doubt about Poppleton's new logo (The Poppletonian, 13 March)? Surely it must be the triangle above the square to remind us all of the tireless efforts of Jamie Targett, going forward...
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The perfect brainstorm
Are the institutes of advanced study being set up across the UK simply research hotels where academics can enjoy precious thinking time or evidence of a fundamental shift in cutting-edge research?...
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Familiar text, new chapter
Textbooks are hard to write, the rewards are few and e-books are at last coming of age. So what's the future for these essential companions, asks Matthew Reisz
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Faith no more
Geza Vermes, author of Jesus the Jew, is yet again turning his formidable forensic skills on his former Christian religion, this time in the shape of the Resurrection. Matthew Reisz meets him to...
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20 March 2008
Two heads better than one - What academics can learn from other disciplines
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The week in higher education
l l l The widespread media coverage of Lord Goldsmith’s report on how to enhance “citizenship” in the UK focused on the controversial – indeed, the widely ridiculed – idea that school-leavers should...
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‘Frustrated’ learned societies plan a united front to get AHRC’s attention
Learned societies and subject associations in the arts and humanities are setting up a “rapid response group” to make their voices heard amid growing frustration over a number of controversial plans...
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Published this week
Biological sciencesBarrel CortexBy Kevin Fox, professor of biosciences, Cardiff University Cambridge University Press, £75.00 ISBN 9780521852173 Fox explores three main aspects of the barrel cortex...
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Aston-University
• Geoff Tansley of the School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a UK/India Education and Research Initiative grant of £81,000 for research on a total artificial heart. • Roslyn Bill,...