Life coaching (1 of 2)
Michael Somerton is undoubtedly correct in asserting that "becoming an effective teacher should be seen as a long-term process" ("Qualified expectations", Letters, 8 November). However, this does not...
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Life coaching (2 of 2)
Michael Somerton suggests that becoming an effective teacher ends only "on retirement". Following the suggestion by Vanessa Pupavac, lecturer in international relations at the University of...
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Do tell them, pike
If one is looking for an apt new slogan for the academy ("The new motto for the marketplace: all for one and none for all", 15 November), R.H. Tawney's famous quote from Equality (1931), "Freedom for...
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Measuring up
The letter commenting on university rankings and men's endowment no doubt has been reported favourably by the media in every country ("Bunch of rankers", 11 October). After all, we all want to come...
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Fred flag flying
Regarding "Shiny happy periodicals" (15 November): thank God for Fred Inglis!Susan Powell, Chair of medieval texts and culture, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of...
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Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonSuffer the migrant childrenA film charting the plight of a young Afghan refugee deported from the UK has been submitted as evidence to a parliamentary human rights...
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Appointments
University of SheffieldSarah WigglesworthAn award-winning architect and professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield, Sarah Wigglesworth has become the first woman to be appointed a Royal...
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Scientific method acting, when all the lab's a stage
Oxford scholar offers full-length analysis of staged ‘two-culture’ entanglement. Matthew Reisz writes
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The price of quality and innovation is failure
David Matthews reports from the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha and hears Tony Blair’s former adviser argue for university ‘turnover’
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Scholar finds output written in the stars
Beware online misrepresentation, says academic mistakenly linked to tarot book. Chris Parr reports
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ESRC proposes a whole new way of thinking
ESRC offers grants for ambition
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Three wishes: NUS urges trio of loans to help poor postgraduates
End ‘immoral’ barriers to access on grounds of wealth, union urges. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Small, medium or large
Is there an optimum size for research labs? Are larger labs more prone to research misconduct and harder to manage? Paul Jump investigates
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Firm footing
Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy
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McKinsey: rankings ought to show who is on the job
Company’s education leader calls for greater focus on graduate employability. David Matthews reports