Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf, by Susan David Bernstein
Colin Higgins on Victorian women writers and poets who thrived, or not, in the atmosphere of the Round Reading Room

Colin Higgins on Victorian women writers and poets who thrived, or not, in the atmosphere of the Round Reading Room


Critics doubt legality of regulatory framework’s disciplinary powers

Hefce interviews for chief executive post: will a woman get the nod at last? John Morgan reports

British Academy’s new president demands clarity and humility

I am very puzzled that Geraldine Van Bueren thinks “an amateur event with no financial reward” is an argument that a sport is not elitist (“Making waves”, Opinion, 11 July). Amateurism at this level...
My letter made John H. Arnold smile (“Contact assessment”, Letters, 11 July). His made me laugh. He argues that students are buying many hours of “notional contact” with their fees, which brings the...
Both your interview with Michael Sandel (“Moneyball and chains”, 11 July) and Fred Inglis’ enthusiastic review of Arts of the Political (“Surging currents of resistance”, Books, 11 July) raise...
The Operating Framework for Higher Education in England, released on 11 July, sets out with admirable clarity practical proposals for holding things together now that plans for a Higher Education Act...
Sir Howard Newby says that the University and College Union has “misrepresented” the current dispute at the University of Liverpool (“Standard terms, equal conditions”, Letters, 11 July). Regrettably...
Geoffrey Alderman should have checked his facts before delivering his opinion (“Darkness visible”, 11 July).I agree with him that Quality Assurance Agency reviews matter to providers, whether in...
We should give two cheers, not three, for the 50th anniversary of the Robbins report (“Here’s to class act that challenged tyranny of class in admissions”, Opinion, 11 July).The report led to a...

V-c warns of credit crunch over funding plan

In India, the US, the UK and beyond, branding is an inescapable part of higher education, for good or ill