Oversight is essential (2 of 2)
"Bleak vision for student imports due to lack of 'oversight'" provided a much-needed focus on the damage caused to UK further and higher education by recent changes to the student-immigration route....
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Power of the medieval purse
Further to Miri Rubin's analysis ("Sources of illumination", 29 September), medieval universities may have other lessons to teach us.During its early development in the 12th and 13th centuries, the...
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Class citations (1 of 2)
It was a relief to read Andrew Oswald's article on the research excellence framework ("Data be damned: REF's blueprint for systemic intellectual corruption", 22 September).I am among a small group of...
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Class citations (2 of 2)
Andrew Oswald is right to decry the banishment by many REF panels of data such as citations. No doubt some will respond by pointing to the pilot study that compared the results of peer review with...
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Forever English
I see that Ludwik Finkelstein of City University London has died (Obituary, 29 September). I have a Finkelstein story.He was at a meeting in Wales, and introductions were being made."This is Mr Evans...
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TV review: Shirley
The embodiment of sex appeal, Shirley Bassey's sheer vitality obscures her self, says Gary Day
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Film review: Everything Must Go
Bringing comedy into the tale of a man whose suburban life falls apart doesn't work for Duncan Wu
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Ralph Steinman, 1943-2011
When Ralph Steinman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his doctors were in the unusual position of being able to use their patient's research to prolong his life.Professor Steinman, who was named...
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Foreign student rule-breaking: culture clash or survival skills?
North American administrators call high rates of plagiarism 'tip of the iceberg'. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of TorontoAndrew StarkAn academic specialising in the philosophy of intellectual property law has become a Fulbright scholar. Andrew Stark, professor of strategic management and professor...
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Odds and quads
This mummified crocodile from the Greco-Roman period is held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and was recently the subject of large-scale...
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Research intelligence - Harnessing the power of Nature
Separating research wheat from chaff is a science in itself, editor of leading journal tells Paul Jump
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Alex Danchev applauds an artist whose depiction of events that others shy from aims to make the 'inexplicable more explicable'
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From where I sit - Measured withdrawal
"Exit stage left pursued by HR": is this an appropriate final direction for this retiring professor? In order to depart from the University of Western Australia, I had to download, fill in and...
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