As the UCU has pointed out, higher education in the UK has recently been beset by a series of problematic developments and it is now considering industrial action. One of the actions taken (or indeed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Too few academics are putting themselves forward for the top jobs. Amanda Goodall argues that we must nurture talent, value achievement and pay more if we want to fill the empty chairs
In philosophy, logic is too often considered the only appropriate analytical instrument. Adding fiction to the toolkit can, Michael Boylan argues, offer new and illuminating ways to contemplate human...
Dale Salwak explains how he removes the obstacles that prevent his students connecting with the greatest writer in the English language, allowing them to fall under the Bard's spell
Philip Dodd finds Javier Bardem the pivotal centre of a film about our inescapable mortality
Was Hattie Jacques' passion for her driver simply a response to her own self-loathing, asks Gary Day
This wedding dress and these accessories, made entirely of glass fibre, were worn by Helen Nairn Munro on the day she married W.E.S. Turner in 1943.