Remedial treatment 1
Alan Ryan presents what has become an orthodox, mildly covert critique of the post-1992 new university sector (Opinion, August 17). He suggests that this sector, although he avoids naming it...
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Remedial treatment 2
My anger turned to sadness when I read Alan Ryan's article. In the 1960s, as an 11-plus failure and without an O level in mathematics, I gained a Teachers' Certificate followed by a BEd. During my...
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No funding novice
Your article on institutions' research council success rates ("Manchester leads the cash bonanza", August 24) quotes me as saying that Cambridge University has recently woken up to the opportunities...
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Citation dispute
Peter Lawrence rightly inveighs against the "audit society" that has resulted from assessing scientists by bibliometrics and impact factors ("Popular beat may drown out genius", August 24). In 1966,...
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Shame on you, Dr Chav
Dr Chav began his article ("Who are you calling a thicko prole?", August 17) with an excellent point. Academe's contempt goes beyond white working class boys to what they represent, and what was...
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They weren't the first
Open Space events were definitely not pioneered in the UK by Westminster University, as was suggested by your recent article "Circular route to event" (August 3). Open Futures in Edinburgh has held...
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Tyranny of research 1
Your front page story "Awesome teaching may be a dead end" (August 24) superbly reflects the utter madness of the current research-obsessed regime in universities. We have record numbers of students...
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The end was nigh
The US-led 'liberation' of Iraq was neither politically nor economically inspired, insists John Gray, but rather a messianic experiment driven by Christian millenarianism Towards the end of the past...
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Honest brokers? Not always
Revelations that some administrators and universities in the US were profiting from links with loan companies have rocked America's student financing system. Stephen Phillips examines the impact of...
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Waggles, twirls: it's all such a buzz
Craig Roberts has a hobby that might sound an awful lot like his work: the behavioural biologist was recently bitten by the beekeeping bug. Still, he tells Olga Wojtas, they keep him sweet Craig...
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Monsters and revenants for fright-minded people
The Horror Film
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An Englishwoman abroad
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
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An epic, earth-moving battle
Galileo Antichrist
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a prizewinning work: "In the beginning there was only Brandenburg, a territory encompassing some 40...
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Small fry can win, but big fare best
Top research grant winners claim aggressive applications policy pays off. Louise Radnofsky reports A small group of modern universities is overcoming the odds to win research grants with the same...