Thinking of a Master Plan
Alan Ryan on how California’s famed system might work in the UK
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15 December 2011
Blooming marvellous - Dutch plan to grow prize specimens
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Together, they are stronger
To compete on the world stage, universities are increasingly considering mergers as a way to enhance status and expertise
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Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (1 of 2)
Having, pre-retirement, been an academic in what is now called "digital humanities", I much appreciated Matthew Reisz's sapient article on the current state of play ("Surfdom", 8 December). Beyond...
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Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (2 of 2)
Matthew Reisz's apparent irritation with the "democratic" aspirations of the Online Chopin Variorum Edition might have been lessened had he troubled to understand whom the OCVE serves and how it does...
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Mad Men don't innovate
The i-Map study ("i-Map finds too many weeds in the portfolio garden", 8 December) found an order of waste in UK universities' new course development, but subjecting new course ideas to conventional...
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Irreligious tones? (1 of 2)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Bless us with a silent night", 8 December) has been listening to the wrong tunes.While Shepherds Watched, a paraphrase of Luke 2: 8-14, may be a little dull when sung to...
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Irreligious tones? (2 of 2)
Jorge Cham, in his cartoon Piled Higher and Deeper (24 November), displays to his credit an inkling of the Lord's Prayer, but his adaptation of it is offensive to anyone who takes Christianity...
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Minds for sports, not ethics
In discussing US universities' sports programmes and, specifically, the alleged child sexual abuse scandal and cover-up at Pennsylvania State University, the article "Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector'...
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Any route to access will do
Wes Streeting's opinion article "Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion" (8 December) wrongly accuses the Office for Fair Access of "directing" universities to divert money...
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Improved outcomes
Geoffrey Channon is quite right to warn us of the careless use of "neoliberal business-speak" such as delivery of courses (Letters, 8 December). However, he is wrong to include in that pernicious...
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Soas takes legal steps to end occupation
The School of Oriental and African Studies has begun legal proceedings to end an occupation of one of its buildings.
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Hints of Higgs boson 'set scientific world agog’
“Tantalising hints” have been discovered of the fabled Higgs boson – but the data are not yet strong enough to make any conclusive statements about its existence.
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Course to address dearth of physics teachers
Thirty higher education institutions are to offer a new teacher training programme in physics and mathematics, it has been announced.