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  1. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  2. Off Piste - Fat of the land, meat on the road

    Taking a leaf out of the River Cottage cookbook and fermenting it, Chris Jones lauds the foraging lifestyle and encourages his own 'Generation Roadkill' to reconsider their place in the food chain

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  3. Leader: Making no plans for Nigel

    The UK and California both face a shortfall of university places, but at least snobbery isn't making things worse across the pond

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  4. From where I sit - The mother of white elephants

    When Oriental University City opened in Langfang, Hebei Province, a decade ago, it was the first of its kind in China and was hailed as a model to be emulated: a purpose-built campus that would...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  5. Liz Bird, 1958-2010

    A leading expert on teacher training who made a significant contribution to the development of the profession in Africa has died.Liz Bird was born in Reading on 20 April 1958 and educated at the...

    #People

  7. Dearth of knowledge is a dangerous thing 1

    I was sorry to read Tim Birkhead parroting the faddish notion that "technology has devalued the learning of facts" because they can now be acquired so easily "at the click of a button on a smartphone...

    #Letters

  8. Dearth of knowledge is a dangerous thing 2

    I suggest that the decision-makers in higher education would do well to make the connection between Tim Birkhead's article on shaking up the "dreadful inertia" in teaching and the piece on academics...

    #Letters

  9. Greatly exaggerated

    While I am delighted to read of Liz Hallum's "Great escape" (12 August) - and very much in favour of her choice of wine - I was somewhat dismayed to discover in the article that the area in which I...

    #Letters

  10. How 'terrible'

    I am saddened but not surprised by the University and College Union's response to the pay award that we have made at Regent's College ("Private virtues include 3% pay rise for staff", 12 August). It...

    #Letters

  11. Victim of trial by media

    A year ago, the field of biomedical research dedicated to the molecular physiology of intercellular signalling was impoverished by the abrupt resignation of Annmarie Surprenant from the University of...

    #Letters

  12. Wind critique falls flatus

    Martin Cohen cites wind power in Denmark as an example of how well-meaning government initiatives can do more environmental harm than good ("Profits of doom", 29 July). However, his analysis is...

    #Letters

  13. 'Followership' is the thing

    Dai Hounsell (Letters, 12 August) is quite right to take Paul Ramsden to task for allowing readers to form the impression that he was solely responsible for discovering the student experience in the...

    #Letters

  14. Safety in numbers

    Tom Franklin makes an interesting and important point about the attendance of students at lectures (Letters, 5 August). My own extensive experience as an external examiner indicates that students who...

    #Letters

  15. From beyond the grave

    We enjoyed your perceptive article on the need for students to seek out more information on their courses ("Read all about your course - if you really want to, that is", 5 August), but feel that the...

    #Letters