Odds and quads: the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection
These shoes are among 650 pairs that were once used as teaching aids and now comprise the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection.
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Research intelligence - Opening night, curtain call?
Shakespeare journal screws courage to sticking place on open peer review, but doubts remain. Paul Jump writes
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From where I sit - Gulf between aims and outcomes
Investment in education in the Gulf countries has seen a dramatic increase in recent decades. Governments have engaged in highly ambitious projects to put themselves on the global education map:...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of CambridgeThe company you keepDavid Cameron attracts the same sort of Facebook follower as American martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell, while fans of Barack Obama are the type who also...
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The week in higher education
• Two academics planning an anti-monarchy mock execution outside Westminster Abbey were arrested ahead of last week's royal wedding. Chris Knight, a former professor of anthropology at the University...
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Average measurements
Malcolm Gillies discusses the fees revolution’s mean, median and mode
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5 May 2011
The malady of research - Science is not doing enough to ensure the truth will out
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Leader: To get to the truth, open up
More transparency from scientists, journals and institutions would go a long way to ensuring that flawed research is quickly detected
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Antiquated approaches (2 of 2)
It is a pity that Jackie Cassell's attempt to challenge the availability of subjects in state schools should perpetuate the myth that high-achieving independent schools contain disproportionate...
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Off-target in places
Graham Farmelo's review of David Edgerton's book Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (21 April) was refreshing, as there is clearly still much to do to get a...
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Anyone for quality?
The US study you reported ("Mission creep as US spends, spends, spends on the extras", 28 April), showing that between half and three-quarters of American students pay more in tuition than their...
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Anti-posh prejudice
Universities that charge £9,000 a year will have to show that they are widening participation from state schools and the lower social classes.But what about those callous universities charging, say...
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Feeling their age
Nicholas Morton's "aged and magnificently bearded relative" ("Pick a book, any book", 21 April) would have agreed with Sir Geoffrey Howe. In 1962, when he was neither aged nor bearded, he declared...
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No stars for Hefce's mixed messages
Like Michael Rayner ("Star signs and bad omens", 28 April), I too was dismayed to learn of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's intention in 2011-12 to reduce by more than two-thirds...