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  1. Don't give me a break

    Craving periods of uninterrupted time? A year without having to respond to emails? Tim Birkhead may be disappointed ("Lo, He created study leave", August).Although study leave may enhance...

    #Letters

  2. Poppleton is recruiting

    I fear there has been some confusion in your advertising department.An advertisement for the University of Poppleton has been mistakenly attributed to the Higher Education Academy (page 53, 20 August...

    #Letters

  3. Bear facts about the Bard 1

    Your annual feature on exam howlers ("The French Resistance made good use of the internet, you know", August) reminded me how keenly students of Shakespeare have illuminated plays I thought I knew...

    #Letters

  4. Bear facts about the Bard 2

    In regards to your article on exam bloopers, I must share one of my favourites. It also relates to the quoted passage from Hobbes' Leviathan. However, on this exam the student declared that "life in...

    #Letters

  5. Graham Rees, 1944-2009

    Graham Rees, a world authority on Jacobean printing and the works of Francis Bacon, has died.He was born in Salisbury on 31 December 1944 and educated at St Albans School and the University of...

    #People

  6. Our V-C is a hero - official!

    Garlands of scented ragwort were hung around our Vice-Chancellor's neck during his recent visit to Poppleton's new offshore campus in the former Soviet Republic of Kalashnistan. The garlands,...

    #Laurie

  7. Don't go on the defensive

    Alan Ryan ponders why institutions are so uptight about freedom of information

    #Alan Ryan
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  8. From where I sit: Drought, saving and spending

    How bad is the drought in India? The evidence of a crisis in the countryside - farmers forced to sell their cattle, shortages of water and fodder, failure of crops - has been vividly described by P....

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  9. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  10. Leader: Autonomy can be an illusion

    US academics may face less red tape than those in the UK, but they must also appease students, whose opinions can halt careers

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  11. Planes, trains and carbon

    Academics should take the lead when it comes to cutting aviation-related carbon, say Jens Rolff and David Sedley

    #Opinion

  14. Students 'magnify effect of term-time paid jobs'

    Students may be exaggerating the negative effects of term-time paid employment in order to avoid involvement in other activities, researchers at Edge Hill University suggest.The debate about term-...

    #News