Widely recognised as the foremost historian of Italian cinema, to whom "all historians of Italian films owe an outstanding debt", Gian Piero Brunetta has finally and somewhat belatedly seen his...
The written character is and remains the basis of every typographic activity. It is not a creation of our century. The written character goes far back in time, spanning the vast distance from early...
Durham University's commercial for the range and depth of its work leaves Jon Turney wanting more
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESMore Than Darwin: The People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism ControversyBy Randy Moore, H.T. Morse-Alumni distinguished teaching professor of biology, University of...
The electronic distribution of academic journals has many advantages, but the business model that underpins it has a fatal flaw.Central to it is the "bundling" of journals. When we subscribe to a...
I wonder if Thomas Docherty has any first-hand experience of apprenticeships ("To provide teaching of quality, we must get back to our roots", 9 July). Far from being characterised by mutual respect...
Gary Thomas can't think of any "major social-scientific achievements" ("In search of singular insight", 9 July). Well, Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on...
The strange article by Gary Thomas suggests to me that the author knows little about modern economics research.The May 2009 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, one of the leading...
Those privileged to hear Ron Barnett's plenary address at the Higher Education Academy conference will probably be wondering what's in store for the universities of the future ("Selfish models lose...
Thanks for the list of universities, Ron. Perhaps you should add another one to it: the "bullying" university. You could ask it to "rediscover its responsibilities to staff". I tried but got nowhere....
I was surprised to read under the headline "Medics riled by tests of professional behaviour" (9 July) that I had "defended" our work on professionalism among medical students, since this suggests...
One of the few advantages of delivering higher education in further education colleges concerns plagiarism ("To catch a plagiarist", 9 July). Most plagiarism in further education is detected by staff...
I was horrified to read that academics at Liverpool Hope University are being forced into a culture of presenteeism ("Edict curtailing freedom to work at home 'appals' staff", 2 July). Far from...
I appreciated the article "When it comes to saving the environment, academics don't practise what they preach" (2 July), but perhaps universities should invest in video-conferencing equipment to...
The continuing lament over falling provision in modern language studies resonated for me as I peered at a row of generously donated antiquarian books on sale in the front window of a local charity...