Dread dress rehearsal
Alastair Hudson suggests that police kettling is explicable as a "massive and premeditated overreaction" designed to provoke violence by raising the tension in enclosed spaces, hence focusing media...
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Elitist pipe dream (1 of 3)
While Research Councils UK's proposals to concentrate quality-related research funding on centres of established excellence and capacity are defensible, those advocated by David Colquhoun - which...
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Elitist pipe dream (2 of 3)
Two articles last week - your interview with David Colquhoun and the news story "How the mighty have fallen: impact pilot's unexpected results" - tell contradictory stories.Colquhoun suggests that...
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Elitist pipe dream (3 of 3)
David Colquhoun's recommendation to concentrate research in elite institutions was illustrated with an image of him smoking a pipe. Clearly research evidence has little impact on his personal...
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Number of ironies (1 of 2)
There is magnificent irony in Chris Ormell's article "Putting reality back into the equation" (20 January) when he declares that "Mathematics tends to be...misunderstood", as his own profound...
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Number of ironies (2 of 2)
Chris Ormell makes a number of ridiculous claims, including that pure mathematics is about nothing more than the reification of symbols, and that blind faith among mathematicians is responsible for...
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Plug loans 'haemorrhage'
More than £200 million in accumulated taxpayer fee subsidy to European Union students studying at UK universities is at risk of being written off if urgent steps are not taken to recover it.A year...
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Rewrites required
The British Film Institute plans to remove its collection from an accessible site in central London to its archive store in Berkhamsted - with no public transport running between the archive and the...
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Tara Brabazon: Networking opportunities
Now is a fertile time to be conducting research among the proliferating forms of social media, writes Tara Brabazon
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Inside Higher Ed: Turning on the faculty
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aberystwyth names new head
Aberystwyth University has named its new vice-chancellor.
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Graduate employers may cast net wider for recruits
Employers believe a rise in university tuition fees will result in a less diverse pool of graduates, a survey of some of the biggest graduate employers in the UK has found.
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Climategate inquiries criticised
The University of East Anglia’s Climategate inquiries were not sufficiently transparent and failed to properly investigate some key issues, the Commons Science and Technology Committee has concluded.
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A model of good practice
I went in to the lion’s den last week, accepting an invitation to join a British Academy policy forum titled “League Tables in the Public Sector”.Among 30 leading social scientists and policymakers...
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Allocation delays leave teacher training in limbo
Delays to the announcement of initial teacher-training funding allocations may lead to some courses being undersubscribed, an academic has warned.