States of emergency
Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation

Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation

High anxiety - Tense about the new term? You’re not alone

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
The back-to-campus jitters will be more pronounced than ever because, in this year of tumult, no one knows what lies ahead

Excitement, anxiety, shaking in your boots. Academics experience mixed feelings as term starts, says Jon Marcus

W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by ‘people’s ability to forget what they do not want to know’, settled in 1960s England and wrote groundbreaking literary works to...

The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald
Your article on the University of Greenwich's concerns about the 20 per cent drop in the number of international students applying for its places in 2011-12 filled us with trepidation ("Visa reform...
The casual reader of Simon Lee's article "'Progressive' austerity and the obvious death of Lib Dem England" (15 September) could be forgiven for supposing that the UK had a Liberal Democrat-dominated...
I am writing to clarify some points raised by your article about Richmond, The American International University in London and its recent probationary status with the Middle States Commission on...
It was disappointing that the report celebrating Toyota as a model of efficiency made no reference to its repeated product recalls ("Academic efficiency drive may put Toyota at the wheel", 15...
You write that higher education institutions should be able to develop unique brands because the retail industry has at least 150 distinctive marques ("Swap camels for custom vehicles", 8 September...
The letter from Gijsbert Stoet ("Rewarding equality", 1 September) points out that gender ratios in academia may simply reflect different choices made by women and men, who tend to be influenced...
I have just read your coverage about the exemplary punishment inflicted by the London School of Economics on Satoshi Kanazawa for the silly claim that black women are genetically uglier than other...
Both the debates about David Starkey's Newsnight appearance (THE passim) and the work of Satoshi Kanazawa are being discussed in terms of professionalism and whether academics are entitled to express...