‘Ideas are ghostly things, and scholarly writing is a kind of magic’
As a manuscript haunts her, Shahidha Bari muses on Apple and the Bard

As a manuscript haunts her, Shahidha Bari muses on Apple and the Bard
Richard Black is right to highlight the need for debate around the Green Paper (“Higher education Green Paper: have universities really neglected teaching?”, 9 November), but I am not sure that he is...
You report that researchers from Walden University and the University of Phoenix find that “persons with disabilities experience marginalisation in education on a regular basis” (“Students with...
Dame Julia King’s illustration of restructuring student learning around “universal challenges” such as climate change (“Climate change will take all our expertise”, Opinion, 29 October) reveals both...
Re your feature on private higher education in Africa (“A ‘teaching shop’ on every corner”, 22 October). As a veteran educationalist in Africa, I fully agree with the statement by Adebayo Olukoshi...
We hear that David Cameron has asked Ucas to make university applications “name-blind” to avoid bias against black students (“On improving diversity, the sector has a clear choice: lead or be led”,...
Lara Cook, in her laudatory review of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Books, 29 October), states that Stalin’s team “even into the 1930s,...

With less panic than it showed prior to 2010’s flat-cash result, science hopes for another round of it-could-have-been-worse
Asia doubles representation while European countries face varied performance

The 2015-16 university ranking for physical sciences, including maths, reveals Asian universities at the top of their game, in addition to the traditional US highlfliers.

Students and politicians may struggle to accept this – especially in the wake of the attacks in Paris – but the best we can do is contain a phenomenon that is as old as the hills, says George...