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  1. A very special lunch

    One of the university's best-loved traditions was revived last week in the snack bar of Michael Gove College when some of our most senior administrative staff reversed their usual roles and spent...

    #Laurie

  2. Offing the cap

    Alan Ryan says Labour would be best off abrogating all responsibility for fees

    #Alan Ryan
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  3. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  5. From where I sit: A history of collaboration

    James Cook and the Discovery of the South Sea, currently running at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, is one of the finest exhibitions I've ever seen. Ingeniously displaying some 600 exhibits - artefacts,...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  6. David Nokes, 1948-2009

    A leading authority on 18th-century literature, who took his subject to a wide audience through television adaptations and acclaimed biographies, has died.David Leonard Nokes was born on 11 March...

    #People

  7. University of Oxford - Poetic justice

    A new professor of poetry is to be elected at the University of Oxford, with the successful candidate scheduled to be in post in autumn 2010. An election was held earlier this year but the winning...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  8. Slash funding red tape to deliver real 'impact' 1

    I note the following variously expressed views in your 10 December issue: i) the impact of some research is more obvious to gauge or imagine than others; ii) most research is likely to have an impact...

    #Letters

  9. Slash funding red tape to deliver real 'impact' 2

    My colleague at the University of Sheffield Tim Birkhead (who I do not know personally) has highlighted a major problem in academia - grant application and reviewing processes. However, the solution...

    #Letters

  10. Slash funding red tape to deliver real 'impact' 3

    Last week I gave a one-hour talk at a British university. To be paid for my time, I have to complete six separate forms and take my passport in person back to the university, some 60 miles from where...

    #Letters

  11. Profit and loss

    Coming from a commercial background into higher education, the ongoing argument about impact reminds me of similar ones about profit ("REF rivals square off over value of impact proposal", 10...

    #Letters

  12. Scientific method 1

    Martin Cohen's article "Beyond debate?" (10 December) deserves some comment. The author's logic and judgment of things scientific can be read from his comment: "how rational is it to pass laws...

    #Letters

  13. Scientific method 2

    I would ask the politicians queuing up to criticise University of East Anglia scientists in the wake of the "Climategate" incident to take a long, hard look in the mirror before proceeding further...

    #Letters

  14. Women's work

    Elizabeth Hoult is quite right to argue that learning needs to be reconceptualised in order for all students to gain the best possible experience ("Let feminine side of learning thrive", 10 December...

    #Letters

  15. Long wait for instructions

    Your excellent piece on teaching rewards is both timely and useful ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December). Clearly, very few academics would challenge the fact that good-quality...

    #Letters