Double bind and binary line menace for Welsh post-92s
Fee cutting is no guarantee of place allocation; merger opposition persists. David Matthews writes
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Warning: changes will 'happen under the radar'
Reports that the government is to shelve its higher education bill raise the prospect of the coalition sneaking controversial changes through not only by ministerial directives that avoid...
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Diary
SheffieldThe Way of the WorldIf you live in a world of extravagant parties, outrageous fashion and scandalous gossip, image is everything. So when Mirabell, a man with a distinctly dubious reputation...
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The Pick - Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin
Credit: The Collection of Howard HodgkinVisions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard HodgkinAshmolean Museum, Oxford, until 22 AprilA group of dervishes, stoned or asleep, have assembled in a...
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Whose risk is it anyway?
According to well-informed sources, a risk without any apparent owner was found wandering around our campus last week. Although reports vary, it appears that this risk would have achieved a "...
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Film review: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Subtle evil lurks in a believable portrayal of a traumatised, fractured personality, says Duncan Wu
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Film review: A Dangerous Method
The master of 'body horror' turns to the monsters of the mind in an exploration of psychoanalysis. Davina Quinlivan investigates
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TV reviews: Prisoners' Wives & Inside Men
New dramas from the BBC tell compelling tales of offenders and their motivations, says Matt Hills
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David Barron, 1935-2012
David Barron was one of the "founding fathers" of computer science and was known as a bon viveur by his friends and colleagues.Professor Barron was born on 9 January 1935 and studied mathematics at...
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The sin of omission was Boston's, not ours
Your readers will emerge much better informed about the Boston College-Belfast Project case having read Peter Geoghegan's informed piece rather than John Brewer's speculative letter on the subject (...
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Inimical ballot (1 of 2)
In June last year, Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, wrote in the New Statesman that "the prospect of 800,000 teachers in schools, colleges and universities being on...
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Inimical ballot (2 of 2)
Jane Hardy claims to write in a personal capacity ("Pension protection", Letters, 26 January), yet she is standing at the forthcoming UCU national executive committee elections as a member of the...
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Art not academe, again
The touchingly recurrent motif of a university core executive afflicted by incipient narcolepsy informs Peter Hill's assessment of the divergent purposes of the art school and the university ("The...
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Lean pickings
"Lean" approaches to cost reduction work best when an organisation has clear objectives with clear ideas on how specific activities contribute (or fail to contribute) to achieving them ("In hungry...
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Personal comments
It was the students who pushed for anonymous marking at the University of East Anglia, brought in, as I understand it, due to the "fairness" argument ("Attributive justice", 26 January). However, the...