We wear a lot
I would like to take the opportunity of your interest in university graduation ceremonies to draw attention to the growing number of academic-dress schemes ("It's a big day, and it keeps getting...
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Not mad for it
Your notice in the Campus round-up ("Media monument", 16 July) is headed "Salford/Cambridge/Goldsmiths/Lancaster" and refers to the consortium that has won funding to develop media research and...
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Standards issue
Is the case of "Alpha-rated but no cash" the same as A-level students with high grades that no longer guarantee success (Letters, 23 July)? In short, are higher grades too easy to obtain?Gordon Joly...
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The filth and the filter
Presumably, the obscenity filters mentioned in last week's editorial will misguidely slash your online readership because of the inclusion of the term "cock-up".Tony Harker, Department of physics and...
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Acronym hits the fan
How unfortunate that the advertisement for a lectureship in "Strategic Hospitality Information Technology" at Thames Valley University (Classifieds, 23 July) appeared in the same edition as a six-...
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Off Piste: Dream date with Carrie's Big (Apple)
When Joanna Lewis finally got to meet the city she had watched for years on the screen, she found that, like many long-anticipated rendezvous, it did not all go to plan
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Let's relax about fairness
This talk of social mobility is a poor form of radicalism, says Alan Ryan
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Total disclosure a sign of the academy's time-and-motion sickness
Thomas Docherty examines the transparency culture, its political uses and the dangerous implications for scholarly freedom
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From where I sit - Measuring the unmeasurable
Assessment and impact: these are the new watchwords in higher education. We have assessment indicators in the social sciences, the physical sciences and our business and law schools, which ask: "What...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Shared scholarly passions
Who'd marry a single-minded, career-focused academic? Other academics, it seems. But such a relationship can have downsides
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University of Strathclyde - Roots manoeuvre
Gavin Esler, presenter of Newsnight, and musician Dougie MacLean investigated their family histories at the University of Strathclyde's International Genealogy Festival last week. Bruce Durie,...
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Durham University - Wave of fear
The potential for a devastating Pacific Ocean tsunami striking the West Coast of America may be greater than was previously thought, according to researchers. Geological evidence gathered from the...
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University of Reading - Fellowship of the ruins
A department of archaeology is celebrating its status as the only academic department in Britain boasting five British Academy fellows. Martin Bell, professor of environmental archaeology at the...
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University of Central Lancashire - A firm friend
The North West Regional Development Agency has awarded more than £750,000 to Lancashire Business School, part of the University of Central Lancashire, to help small businesses across the region. The...