Contempt for vocational study is led by the well-to-do, administrators hear
The chair of the University of Sussex's council has issued a staunch defence of courses derided as "Mickey Mouse" degrees.
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News in brief
Research fundingDon't 'micromanage', says NurseFunders should avoid "micromanaging" research and requiring applicants to set out the impact of their proposals, according to the president of the Royal...
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Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at heart a catalogue of errors
Scholar highlights flawed metadata in the world's largest digital library. Matthew Reisz writes
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An impoverished relation
The 'core-and-margin' policy will cost colleges dear - another unforeseen result of coalition plans, says Philip Davies
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Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion
Wes Streeting argues that a truly independent watchdog would back upfront cash for low-income students, not 'fee waivers' for the state
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Control. Halt. Delete
Soul-crushing email causes stress and slows work. Oliver Double proposes some ways to cut the burden. Email-free Friday, anyone?
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Dickens and London
Charles Dickens' London, full of strangeness, suffering and laughter, is ever closer to today's metropolis, John Bowen argues
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Diary
BBC Radio 4Blue Notes, Cold NightsA generation of African-American musicians escaped racism at home to build new lives, and create new music, in Scandinavia. In Blue Notes, Cold Nights, country blues...
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The Pick - You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It With YouRoyal Exchange, ManchesterUntil 14 January 2012The extended Sycamore clan are the ultimate lovably eccentric family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the household, gave up a...
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Best at nothing - again
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the Times Higher Education Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...
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TV review: Churches: How to Read Them
The Church was the heart of medieval life, says Gary Day, full of symbolism, beauty and grotesqueries
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Film review: Mysteries of Lisbon
This set of melodramatic interconnected tales is a visual delight - but take a cushion, says Duncan Wu
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Julia Swindells, 1951-2011
Julia Swindells was a "reluctant academic star" who, despite making Cambridge her home, "always remained a Northerner in her heart".Professor Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951, and...
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Appointments
London Metropolitan UniversityCécile TschirhartLondon Metropolitan University has appointed its first dean of students to act as a "champion of the student experience". Cécile Tschirhart was...
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Odds and quads
John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.