Clear thought about access lost in row (3 of 4)
Might journalistic propriety have been better served in last week's issue by a bracketed reference, latched in place somewhere among the flurry of pieces on and opinions about Les Ebdon, to the fact...
Might journalistic propriety have been better served in last week's issue by a bracketed reference, latched in place somewhere among the flurry of pieces on and opinions about Les Ebdon, to the fact...
Mike Goldstein's extravagant encomium for Les Ebdon misses the point (Letters, 23 February). Ebdon is on record as advocating that some students should be admitted to universities by having their A-...
The story of the Boston College subpoenas is a complicated one and understandably THE's account is incomplete ("Law and academy clash in the long shadow of the gun", 16 February). For instance, the...
Timothy Gowers recently wrote about his decision not to work with Elsevier and his wish for an alternative to the academic journal as a tool for evaluating, sharing and preserving scholarship ("...
"Arts and humanities offer Hobson's choice" (23 February) paints a gloomy and misleading picture of the health of modern languages in UK universities. The University and College Union survey Choice...

A film about Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is surprising in its frankness, says Philip Dodd

Matt Hills enjoys spotting the overlap as the Danish crime genre continues to bring home the bacon

Described by former students as a "one-woman dynasty" and by colleagues as a standard-setter in her discipline, Daphne Brooker had a reputation for driving students to maximise their potential.After...

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
University of KentDoctoral study of crime paysA university has received almost 80 applications for a three-year doctoral programme in cultural and global criminology, which is being supported by...

Myths and monsters - Mapping the terra incognita of the UK’s private sphere
The Home Secretary has exempted PhD-level jobs from a new pay threshold preventing lower-paid workers from settling in the UK.
The expansion of higher education over the past 15 years has largely benefited middle-class rather than working-class children, a study has suggested.
Nearly two thirds of people underestimate the value of international students to the UK economy, a new poll has found.
All undergraduates should be offered 10 to 12 week internships to improve their employability, according to a government-commissioned review of links between universities and business.