Brevity not the soul of wit
In the sincere hope that my children do not read your Letters pages, I must confess my bewilderment concerning your "Tweet of the week" feature. Not only do I not understand the concept or the...
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Authors, you are not alone
I was surprised by Katharine Reeve's assertion that academic authors are "left to their own devices" during the writing process, unlike their fiction-writing counterparts ("Bound for glory", 5 August...
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Ceci n'est pas une chaise
Once again, Times Higher Education refers to someone, in this case Thomas Bartlett of the University of Aberdeen, as being "... chair", when, to be more precise, he holds a chair (Author profile, 5...
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Baloney detector
The concerns of your anonymous "senior manager at a research-intensive university" are complete baloney ("Loss of ally adds to Welsh unrest", 5 August).There is no dearth of higher education...
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It needed to be said
In THE's Letters pages (29 July), James J. Browne and Stefan Decker of the National University of Ireland attack me for criticising the European Commission's research funding programme ("Brussels...
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Collective insights
"When I first wrote about the student experience of learning in the early 1990s," writes Paul Ramsden, "no one had heard of the idea" ("No thinkable alternative", 5 August).I'd like to gently remind...
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Tony Judt, 1948-2010
One of the most celebrated – and controversial – historians of his generation has died. Tony Judt was born in London on 2 January 1948 into a multilingual Jewish family. Between the ages of 15 and 19...
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University of Oxford - French toast
A university foundation aiming to publish the complete works of the French philosopher Voltaire has received an award from the Academie Francaise. The Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford...
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Here comes your Holiday Special!
This is the time of year when academics take full advantage of their two-week statutory holiday allowance and seek out pastures new. And this year, The Poppletonian will be going with some of them.In...
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Be different, be (s)quids in
Teaching graduates how to think will help them get jobs, says Tim Birkhead
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From where I sit - Wish list for the new term
As Australia goes to a federal election on 21 August, there is a scrabble by politicians to cadge votes by chirruping buzzwords and making lavish promises.But neither the prime minister Julia Gillard...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence - A geneticist in the House
Cambridge academic and Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert is a champion for science in the new Parliament. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: The way to infinitives and beyond
Why is it always only the young, who are still learning, who are taken to task over poor spelling and grammar?"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split," the writer...
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Imperial College London - Return of the Silurian blob
An ancient creature of the deep has been revealed by scientists at Imperial College London. They have developed a 3D model of the only known fossilised specimen of a creature, called Drakozoon, which...