Spirited opposition
Your article "Bristol v-c faced no opposition in bid to become UUK president" (18 November) fails to paint the full picture. Universities UK's strategy regarding the government's cuts programme and...
Your article "Bristol v-c faced no opposition in bid to become UUK president" (18 November) fails to paint the full picture. Universities UK's strategy regarding the government's cuts programme and...
Yes, a great many so-called "historical" novels are trash ("History in the faking", 18 November). Is War and Peace also trash? I ask mainly because Leo Tolstoy was scathing about the contributions of...
Peter Geoghegan argues that the massive student protest in London on 10 November reflected real anger and is likely to be the first of many ("Student riots, the first taste of the fruits of unbridled...
Aaron Porter, the president of the National Union of Students, is absolutely right ("New market, new rules: NUS signals consumer revolution", 18 November). Only by diverting a greater proportion of...
As an American teenager, I considered many West Coast and New England institutions, but after a visit to the University of St Andrews, I realised that it was a cheaper option - even with the expense...
I'm afraid Martin A. Mills is deluded ("A grand unified theory of man", 18 November). Such a theory is neither possible nor desirable, because it could never accommodate the natural and social...
Meditation is not a fitting member of a list of "treatments that many regard as having unproven efficacy at best" ("No 'magic bullet': try this amulet", 18 November).The mental-health benefits that...

The Freedom of Information Act enables public access to scientists' research data, but can scientific knowledge really be extracted in this way? Scientists should engage with the public, but need to...
This should be the age of reason but we are failing to foster the intellectual skills that could liberate student minds. Linda Elder argues that we should embed critical thinking at the heart of the...

Duncan Wu finds unexpected depth in a tale of a fearful assassin, but not in the lead's acting

Vexed questions - Science comes to terms with the impact of Freedom of Information requests
The government has set out plans to radically reform teacher training.

“Salami-slicing” the research budget is preferable to making “extremely dangerous” decisions to cease funding whole areas of research, according to physicist Brian Cox.
The government is to slash the number of foreign students studying in the UK, as well as reducing the number of visas for highly skilled workers by a fifth.New visa restrictions were outlined today...

By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed