Just as the media, in the shape of US news channel CNN, surprised the world with coverage of the First Iraq War, now it is social media's turn to astonish us.This seems to have happened first when...
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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
You report that students at University College London have passed a motion of "no confidence" in Malcolm Grant, provost of the institution and the new chairman of the NHS Commissioning Board ("...
"Running £730m UCL budget is a part-time job" is one-sided: it highlights the views of those opposed to the appointment of Malcolm Grant as chair of the NHS Commissioning Board, but does not reflect...
There is nothing new in Malcolm Grant heading a health quango alongside his "day job" at UCL. In the mid-1990s, I lectured at the former University of Luton. Its vice-chancellor, Tony Wood, achieved...
David Blanchflower, former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, is partly right in saying that 100,000 extra university places should be created next year to address rising...
If last week's editorial meant to reaffirm the centrality of bread-and-butter issues in the University and College Union's remit, I would second it ("Bread, not political poses", 3 November). However...
"Democratic experiments" (3 November) raises some interesting points. However, I think Jon Turney may be mistaken in thinking that "democratic" means that everyone cares about "the science bit"....
I struggle to share Alan Ryan's positive evaluation of the Occupy Wall Street protests ("Kropotkin's heirs apparent", 3 November). While we might agree that they are "astonishingly good-natured",...
Your comment on the employment practices of Shorter University in the US seems to miss the point (The week in higher education, 3 November). Frowning on adultery is a vital aspect of "the boring '...