Passport to indignation
Further to Martin Cortazzi's piece ("They've invited me to present my papers, and this time it's personal", Opinion, 9 August): I was asked recently to help out in a British university for a few...
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Rare cite
Regarding The Poppletonian's lead story on citation abuse ("I cite, you cite, we all cite together", 23 August). It occurs to me that its writer, Laurie Taylor, never backs up his sometimes fanciful...
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Campus round-up
University College LondonRichly altruisticAn experiment has provided evidence that people living in richer areas are more likely to behave altruistically. A team of researchers from the anthropology...
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Appointments
Conde Nast College of Fashion and DesignKate ChealThe new senior lecturer in e-learning at the soon-to-be-opened Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design said she hoped to create a technological...
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The mañana project
Chile’s education minister says reform is coming at last to its costly, largely privatised academy - but at a ‘slower pace’. Will it satisfy those who joined widespread protests calling for...
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Research Intelligence - Cold shoulder for Ireland's pure science?
Researchers fear basic science is being sidelined by impact-driven funding body. Paul Jump reports
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From Where I Sit - Regional influence
In the past decade, Turkey has expanded its trade relations and adopted a flexible visa regime, allowing the movement of people on a scale hitherto unprecedented. This and efforts to integrate...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Deborah Rogers is moved by a feminist scholar’s meditation on the body, medicine and mortality
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30 August 2012
Price-tag projections - What do deeply invested US students tell us about our high-fees future?
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Carnesky's Tarot Drome
Marisa Carnesky’s new theatrical homage to the carnivalesque is a divinely divinatory affair, Roberta Mock discovers
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Copycat criminality
Christopher Bigsby on plagiarism in the cut-and-paste era
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The week in higher education
• Carl Lygo, head of for-profit BPP University College, is no stranger to spats with those who have expressed concern at the rising influence of the free market in the higher education sector. He...
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Leader: Price is up but game's unchanged
More consumer pressure is to be expected with higher fees, but it must not negatively affect university standards