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  1. Letters

    REF noose round neck of academic freedomOver the summer, my department asked me to prepare a research excellence framework impact statement based on work I had done six years ago (“Swansea’s REF plan...

  2. Raising the bars

    Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates

  3. Bleak campus novel revival

    John Williams’ novel about the careworn life of an obscure US academic sank swiftly from view upon publication in 1965, Christopher Bigsby writes. But half a century later, Stoner’s moving paean to...

  4. Glittering tragicomedy

    Jonathan Thacker hopes that three comedia nueva plays - combining comedy and tragedy - will herald a revival of a lesser-known art form

  11. Stellar mother

    Margaret Weitekamp applauds a filial tribute to a woman who helped get the US off the ground

  12. Unjust arm of the law

    Vicky Conway hails powerful research that lays bare the corrosive effect of unchecked power

  13. God not dead on campus

    Campus is not the secular space imagined by die-hard antagonists, Gerald Pillay observes

  14. Laurie Taylor

    Only the lonely“In my opinion, both universities are far too mealy-mouthed about the whole business.”This was the typically frank response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the...

  15. Doctrinal differences

    I am about to begin my 20th year of teaching in the UK: 12 years at Lancaster University and now in my eighth year at the University of Aberdeen. I had taught for years in my native US and, when I...