Fawlty reaction
Mary Evans' "Heartbreak hotels" (Opinion, 24 May) served little purpose. The appropriate reaction to the lamentable "service" she described was: first, complain to the hotel manager face to face and...
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Stop digging
Helen Sword's book Stylish Academic Writing has an interesting title. Could you publish a review of the contents? ("Prose to die for, by the Spade-ful", Books, 3 May).Martyn Thomas, London
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Ian Oswald, 1929-2012
One of the world's leading experts on sleep has died.Ian Oswald was born in London on 4 August 1929. He was educated in the capital and at the Herbert Strutt grammar school in Belper, Derbyshire -...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of East LondonDresses to impressBudding fashion designers presented their work to the Queen during a stop on her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK. Mikaela Cephinis, a foundation textiles and...
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31 May 2012
Rat race to the bottom - Unhealthy competition gnaws away at university values
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane
Peregrination gives way to contemplation in a beautifully wrought travelogue, finds Timothy Mowl
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Milburn criticises employers over elite recruitment
Barriers to entering many professions are being reinforced by employers who recruit from a small cohort of socially exclusive universities, according to the government’s independent reviewer of...
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Campus Review: Australian science healthy but vulnerable, says chief scientist
Agricultural sciences, physics, mathematics and chemistry have been identified as “vulnerable” by Australia’s chief scientist.
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Chancellors write to PM over international students
Dozens of university chancellors and heads of governing councils have written to the prime minister backing calls for international students to be removed from net migration statistics.
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Greenwich greenest in environment table
The University of Greenwich has topped the People and Planet Green League 2012, up from joint fifth place last year.
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Inside Higher Ed: Romney reveals higher education plans
By Libby A. Nelson for Inside Higher Ed
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Late bloomer takes place among HEA winners
An academic who left school at 15 is one of the winners of the Higher Education Academy’s doctoral programme awards.
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UWE staff mull walkout over workloads
Staff at the University of the West of England are considering strike action in a dispute over their workloads.
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UCL and Imperial partner with Intel to create research institute
Imperial College London, University College London and the computer firm Intel have launched a research institute they hope will help to shape the way cities work in the future.