Daytime TV: England at a canter
Elements of the national character are revealed to Gary Day through Hartlepool, horses and honeybees
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Using mobile phones while driving - a timely reminder
Many readers will have seen the recent press coverage surrounding an individual who was jailed for sending texts while driving before a fatal crash occurred. The individual received a custodial...
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Top research fronts in the social sciences
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 2003-2008
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Waterboarding allegations denied
Claims that a Poppleton University lecturer was subjected to "waterboarding" after his recent submission to the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee inquiry into higher education...
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Dangerous liaisons
Student-scholar trysts are perilous affairs, writes Sally Feldman
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Now you see it, now you don't
Science and universities are vital to economic recovery, but the Chancellor offered them only budgetary sleight of hand
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From where I sit - The hogwash manifesto
No election in India was ever lost for want of a manifesto. In fact, as a friend put it, many thinking Indians treat manifestos as "hogwash - the wash within which the political hogs bathe themselves...
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John Harper, 1925-2009
John Lander Harper, one of the leading ecologists of the 20th century, has died.He was born on May 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He studied for a first degree in botany at the...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 1
You report a suggestion by Policy Exchange that private, presumably "for profit", providers might take over all or parts of failing universities ("Bankruptcy should be a real option, argues think-...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 2
In 1981, for the first time in its history, the University Grants Committee decided that financial cuts should not create "equal misery", but be differentially directed. The major cuts - much greater...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 3
In your article "Bankruptcy should be a real option", Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, states: "Universities in America go bankrupt, which is why the US has the best...
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Judge AHRC by its deeds 1
As an Arts and Humanities Research Council award-holder, I would like to comment on Peter Barry's attack on the supposedly overarching managerialisation, governmentalisation and restrictive short-...
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Judge AHRC by its deeds 2
Reading your list of field-changing books ("The book everyone wishes they'd written", 23 April), I could not help noticing how many would surely have been denied funding in our climate of "economic...
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Fundamental constraints
In your feature on university governance ("Where power lies", 16 April), David Watson, professor of higher education management at the Institute of Education, quotes from our paper, Keeping Our...