Libraries in fine fettle
G. R. Evans argues for more funding for Oxford library staff. As a former Oxford librarian, I can only applaud her sentiments (“Oxford libraries in disrepair”, Letters, 21 May). Sadly, she follows...
G. R. Evans argues for more funding for Oxford library staff. As a former Oxford librarian, I can only applaud her sentiments (“Oxford libraries in disrepair”, Letters, 21 May). Sadly, she follows...
If open access is to be extended to books, two questions need to be put straight away. How are authors and publishers to position the boundary between books for whose publication the author must in...
I am always interested in other scholars' views of my work - after all, the academic calling is about the search for truth - and engineers' views on the Middle Ages are particularly welcome as they...
A recent paper circulated in the history faculty with a digest of the submission figures that got the faculty its 5* bears out the correctness of press rumours that Cambridge came top only by putting...
Geoffrey Alderman throws down a gauntlet to the chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency over the external examiner system (Letters, 10 July).The QAA has had a procedure for "handling causes...
I wonder whether it is strictly correct for BPP to claim that it is now a university (“And BPP makes two: coalition confers university title on second for-profit”, News, 8 August). The decision to...
Last week the real University of Oxford held open days as part of its widening-access initiative. Fantasy Oxford has open days for tourists every day, with the Mad Hatter Tour and the Harry Potter...
The Green Paper Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice outlines the means by which market forces will be permitted to permeate further into higher education...