Precise definitions
Jennifer Jenkins ("Raising the 'spectras'", Letters, 26 July), in reply to Michael Hollas' complaint about incorrect English ("Singularly annoying", Letters, 19 July), asks to what historical point...
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Gold value trumps costs
The government's plan to make publicly funded scientific research available for free is a major tipping point in academia ("Government and funders move to make Finch a reality", www....
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Stings and sweetness
As a beekeeping academic for years, I appreciated Ruth Farwell's "Hive talking" (Off-piste, 26 July). Students can be like bees: the more you wave them away, the more they come back for more. However...
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Stick to the standards
Simeon Underwood is right ("Still stuck on the audit wheel, and we could do with a credence revival", Opinions, 19 July). In the new world of consumerism that now characterises English higher...
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Vague gestures
Jonathan Steinberg ("Cult of personalities", 19 July) claims that the "collapse of the Soviet Union brought down the whole edifice of social science". This is more puzzling than claiming that...
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Hoax history is bunk but there are truths to be learned from it
Lying About the Past course aims to teach students method and scepticism. Jon Marcus reports
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Campus round-up
Universities of Edinburgh and SheffieldTrouble aheadResearchers have used US military data from the war in Afghanistan to establish a model that can predict which regions of the country are more...
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Appointments
University of SouthamptonJenny FlemingAn academic who has spent more than 15 years working with police agencies worldwide on a number of interdisciplinary topics has become co-director of a...
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Year of living dangerously
In puritan times, says Thomas Docherty, we need sabbaticals more than ever
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The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense
A season dedicated to the UK’s greatest film-maker shows that there is more to his sensibility than misogyny, Davina Quinlivan argues
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Research Intelligence - 'Predators' who lurk in plain cite
Paul Jump on dubious open-access journals keen to attract unwary academics - and their cash
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To serve and reflect
In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
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Caution: NHS work in progress
For six years the government has targeted the decline in UK health research. But a law putting GPs in charge of allocating local resources has left many clinicians fearing that those advances could...
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Leader: Young guns can't go for it
Hefce figures show that the proportion of scholars under 30 is falling: the implications for the sector's future could be severe
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From Where I Sit - Corridors of uncertainty
At a symposium I attended recently, a senior academic apologised in advance if the paper she was delivering wasn't up to scratch. She'd had a harrowing week, she said, as sweeping cuts had been...