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  1. If you go down to a campus today...

    You're in for a big surprise. From Gothic castles and follies to an airport (and something not too fragrant), university sites across the land are home to some extraordinary places, discovers Matthew...

    #Features

  2. Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (1 of 2)

    Having, pre-retirement, been an academic in what is now called "digital humanities", I much appreciated Matthew Reisz's sapient article on the current state of play ("Surfdom", 8 December). Beyond...

    #Letters

  3. Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (2 of 2)

    Matthew Reisz's apparent irritation with the "democratic" aspirations of the Online Chopin Variorum Edition might have been lessened had he troubled to understand whom the OCVE serves and how it does...

    #Letters

  4. Mad Men don't innovate

    The i-Map study ("i-Map finds too many weeds in the portfolio garden", 8 December) found an order of waste in UK universities' new course development, but subjecting new course ideas to conventional...

    #Letters

  5. Irreligious tones? (1 of 2)

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Bless us with a silent night", 8 December) has been listening to the wrong tunes.While Shepherds Watched, a paraphrase of Luke 2: 8-14, may be a little dull when sung to...

    #Letters

  6. Irreligious tones? (2 of 2)

    Jorge Cham, in his cartoon Piled Higher and Deeper (24 November), displays to his credit an inkling of the Lord's Prayer, but his adaptation of it is offensive to anyone who takes Christianity...

    #Letters

  7. Minds for sports, not ethics

    In discussing US universities' sports programmes and, specifically, the alleged child sexual abuse scandal and cover-up at Pennsylvania State University, the article "Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector'...

    #Letters

  8. Any route to access will do

    Wes Streeting's opinion article "Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion" (8 December) wrongly accuses the Office for Fair Access of "directing" universities to divert money...

    #Letters

  9. Improved outcomes

    Geoffrey Channon is quite right to warn us of the careless use of "neoliberal business-speak" such as delivery of courses (Letters, 8 December). However, he is wrong to include in that pernicious...

    #Letters

  11. TV review: The Killing II

    Sarah Lund is in danger of being upstaged by her sweaters in the hit series The Killing, says Gary Day

    #Culture
    #Television

  12. Tom Troscianko, 1953-2011

    Tom Troscianko was a fun, intellectually interesting academic who could "turn a trip into an adventure".Born in 1953, Professor Troscianko joined the British Steel Corporation in 1970 as a lab...

    #Obituary
    #People

  13. THE Scholarly Web

    Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

    #Opinion
    #THE Scholarly Web

  14. Campus round-up

    University of GloucestershireSave the planet (and some cash)Plans for young people to help with projects promoting environmental sustainability in exchange for a discount on tuition fees will be...

    #Campus round-up
    #News

  15. Odds and quads

    This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.

    #News
    #Odds and quads