Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
Tim Birkhead is charmed by a revelation of how our feathered friends affect our lives
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Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
There are a lot of nots and a couple of could-bes in Thousands of Broadways. An essay in nine parts, it's neither autobiography nor a study or history of the poet's hometown of Long Branch, New...
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Talking out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman
Who doesn't love a pity party? The first third of Kass Fleisher's narrative is a Cinderella story about the relationship between a "teen cleaning machine" and her crazy-bad mother. The rest of the...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge
1 Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Airby David J.C. MacKayUIT Cambridge, £19.95ISBN 97809544529332 Why Go to Church? The Drama of the Eucharistby Timothy RadcliffeContinuum, £9.99ISBN...
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V-c's view: rethink the sector or it's downhill from here
The prospect of greater private involvement in UK higher education has been mooted by a vice-chancellor who is calling for a radical re-envisioning of the sector.Nigel Thrift, vice-chancellor of the...
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Are you looking at me?
Although Poppleton has acknowledged the concerns of the Higher Education Policy Institute by increasing personalised contact time with students by 0.62 per cent, a new student survey suggests that...
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Tyrrell Burgess, 1931-2009
Tyrrell Burgess, an innovative educational thinker, has died.
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UCU's 8% claim would be paid for in job cuts 1
We are writing to encourage all University and College Union members to consider carefully the reasons underpinning the union's calls for a dispute. We realise that, in comparison with the...
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UCU's 8% claim would be paid for in job cuts 2
The University and College Union ballot rightly identifies redundancy as the primary threat facing academic staff and points to increased workload and harm to quality as the sure consequences. And...
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Forced labour 1
The feature on the importance of the tutor-student relationship ("The personal touch", 7 May) was a reminder of Cardinal Newman's dictum that a university should be an alma mater, knowing her...
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Forced labour 2
Students in Britain put in fewer hours partly because many now have to work part time to stay at university ("Brits study less than continental cousins", 30 April). I have to work 16 hours to...
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Research for its own sake
Philip Esler is unfair to critics of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's impact agenda such as Peter Barry when he accuses them of taking no account of "the interests of taxpayers" ("We...
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Newcomers close old gap
The gap between old and new universities is indeed closing ("The week in higher education", 7 May), but there are now five new universities in the top half of The Independent league table, the fourth...
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Devalued by oversupply
Although there are differences evident between the UK and Holland ("From where I sit: low country, low standards", 23 April), Rod Aya's observations suggest a common set of social and cultural...
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Guitar heroes 1
It was delightful to stumble upon a beautifully written celebration of the electric guitar placed between complaints about the research excellence framework, budget cuts and stories about strike...