The wisdom of being positively supportive
Frank Furedi evokes the Aristotelian notion of phronesis, as interpreted by Hannah Arendt, in support of his claim that "Our job is to judge" (17 March). In a classic non sequitur, he then expresses...
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Market credentials (1 of 2)
In "Cutting the Gordian knot" (17 March), Alasdair Smith argues that removing price and number restrictions from our universities would reduce costs, as would limiting the intake of "unqualified"...
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Market credentials (2 of 2)
Predictably, the number of student places will need to be restricted in some way to constrain state expenditure on student financial support. David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...
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Limiting our worldview
In his piece "The end is not nigh" (Opinion, 3 March), Sir Adam Roberts argues that we need to be more precise about the threats posed to the humanities and social sciences and less paranoid about...
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Keele, philosophy matters
I am writing to add my voice in protest to the proposal to close the philosophy programme at Keele. I went there in 1989, one of the first of my family to attend university. I am the son of a butcher...
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Ruby slip-ups
In the cultural commentary piece on The Wizard of Oz ("Hello, Yellow Brick Road", 17 March), several stated facts call for correction. The writers who actually "tweaked" the 1939 film's screenplay -...
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Measure of popularity
As the literature indicates, the strength of a "superbrand" can be measured in many ways ("The name says it all", 10 March).However, although not listed in the Times Higher Education World Reputation...
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Dressing down
Margot Feelbetter missed the point in her response regarding a university's demand that its academics "dress up" on open days ("Cosmetic effect", 17 March).British universities have overtly practised...
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Failure is not an option
Reflexive claims for the US academy's greatness ring hollow, says John Summers, given elite institutions' tight links with economic and political power and lack of appetite for challenging ideas
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Identity check: Vice-chancellors' education and pay revealed
In a time of unprecedented change for the UK's academy, its leaders are under the spotlight as never before. Accordingly, Times Higher Education has augmented its annual survey of pay in the sector...
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Film review: The Housemaid
An unbelievable, unerotic thriller may still appeal to viewers' sense of silliness, concludes Duncan Wu
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TV review: Dispatches: Britain's Secret Fat Cats
Gary Day asks what is meant by the Big Society when the government seems intent on dismantling it
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Campus round-up
IoE/East London/SheffieldImagination still alive and wellComputer games, pop music and television are enriching rather than destroying the imaginative games that children play, according to a study....
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Odds and quads
This sculpture of a kangaroo, located incongruously near the entrance of the library at Stockholm University, is the work of Torsten Renqvist (1924-2007).
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