Diary
GatesheadMaurizio AnzeriThe Italian-born, London-based artist Maurizio Anzeri works with an unusual combination of found photographs and embroidery. For this exhibition at the Baltic Centre for...
GatesheadMaurizio AnzeriThe Italian-born, London-based artist Maurizio Anzeri works with an unusual combination of found photographs and embroidery. For this exhibition at the Baltic Centre for...

Credit: Graham Baring/Image courtesy of GV Art & the ArtistArt & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art MovementGV Art, LondonDavide Angheleddu's corroded bronze...

Fears that the changes announced in the government White Paper on higher education might lead to Poppleton becoming the most squeezed university in England have been dismissed by our vice-chancellor....
The government's White Paper will undermine higher education in England. It makes frequent mention of the excellence of the system it now threatens and proposes new forms of financing that are more...
As a former vice-chancellor and now the chair of an NHS trust, I have been struck by the similarities between the government's reforms of higher education and health.Both sets of initial policies...
The sorry tale criticised in "A big paper but no grand plan" (Leader, 30 June) is not only the story of higher education in the UK but also of industry. The UK's corporate culture looks at short-term...
After the political mire of New Labour, Simon Szreter's piece offers a welcome escape route for the party ("Universal access", 22 June).Szreter's timely anchoring of his argument on the dismissal of...
The UK Research Integrity Office was established not only to address misconduct but also to promote good research practice ("Fighting for integrity", 30 June). So we are puzzled by Universities UK's...
I can relate to Liz Schafer's struggles over pay ("There's no good reason for this inequality", 30 June). As one of the UK's 10 black female professors and having been a professor for several years,...
David Richards is right to point to the proliferation of teaching fellowships as a blight on junior academics and academia alike ("Teaching fellowships do not benefit anyone", Letters, 30 June):...
David Richards' diatribe in which he makes the magnificently non-evidence-based assertion that university teaching should "always be led by those who are most passionate...about a field" (aka...
Would Richards rather have students taught by people who love their subject but do not want to teach, or by those who are committed to teaching and set high personal and professional standards in...
I shared the dismay of Tony Gatrell (Letters, 16 June) regarding the spelling of "Perfoming Arts" and "Carribean Studies" in the posters brandished by protesting London Metropolitan University...

The brain's ability to remember and make sense of our past reflects our deeper needs, says Gary Day

A routine costume-drama story is transformed by the casting, writing and direction, says Duncan Wu