Don't mention the money
Doreen Tomelty, our Deputy Director of Advanced Technological Retrieval Systems (formerly Assistant Librarian), has warmly welcomed the interview with a journal publishers' spokesman published in...
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Leader: Why do we steal their starshine?
In our confusion about what we want out of students, we too easily denigrate their genuine accomplishments
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Research Intelligence - Engineering a solution to turbulence
Now is the time to improve and expand facilities, Sheffield faculty head tells Paul Jump
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Copyright battles break out in North America
Canadian universities in row over licensing fees as US awaits fair-use ruling. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• As the dust settled after the UK riots, higher education did not escape unscathed. Among those caught up in the unrest was University of Exeter student Laura Johnson, who has been charged with five...
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From where I sit - In praise of undergraduates
Early in June at the University of Reading, I marked my last undergraduate exam paper - 47 years after I graded my first, as a callow "teaching Fellow" at the University of Sydney. The final script...
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Appointments
University of LeicesterHelen YaffeA historian who stood in anti-apartheid picket lines in London in the 1980s is now researching the movement as part of her new role at the University of Leicester....
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The Pick - The Globe Mysteries
The Saved and the Damned
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The answers aren't online
It takes more than 140 characters to raise a mob, says Kevin Fong
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D-Day (but hopefully A*-Day)
The A-level results are here again: cue the usual laments that exams are getting easier and the scramble for places is becoming ever more intense. But is any of it true? Jack Grove finds out
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Dead reckoning
It's neither ghoulish nor foolish to hold tutorials over one's own coffin, philosopher Peter Vardy insists. Students like to tackle the big questions in life - and none is bigger than death
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (1 of 3)
I read with interest Paul Ramsden's views on attempts to measure the quality of university provision by contact hours and class sizes ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed", 11 August). This...
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (2 of 3)
Paul Ramsden ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed") raises a number of questions, some of which are addressed by Ann Mroz ("Hours and hours of reckoning", Leader, 11 August). However, two things...
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (3 of 3)
I couldn't agree more with Ann Mroz: it's not about how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that counts.However, the bean counters are in the field already, so might I suggest...
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No degrees in compassion
I read with increasing concern Ruth Davies' letter ("Angels with dirty hands", 11 August).Let me register my interest. I trained and practised as a state registered nurse from 1968 to 1974, working...