Is your goose cooked?
...and other quandaries to mull over. Malcolm Gillies takes the temperature
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Leader: The lure of the great wide open
Liberal arts study, with its long view of how humanity has met its trials, is touted as ideal for the 21st century - but it's a hard sell
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Research intelligence - The organic approach
Chief scientific adviser and population biologist Sir John Beddington opts for collegiate problem-solving, writes Paul Jump
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - Sultan in the swing
Oman is seeking to upgrade its main university so that it can join the ranks of world-class institutions.Sultan Qaboos University, with 14,700 students - almost half of them women - and a state-of-...
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Norman Evans, 1923-2010
A leading figure in the movement to recognise experiential learning has died.Norman Evans was born on 6 August 1923 and educated in Bournemouth and at Rydal School, Colwyn Bay. After serving on...
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Post-results no easy path to better access
It was good to see Mary Curnock Cook, the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, reviving interest in a post-qualification application (PQA) system for university places ("Ucas...
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Use before summer 2011
Sally Feldman mentions the demise of the Lifelong Learning Networks ("Fuel for enlightenment", 9 December), which have been generously funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for...
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Treacherous conditions
Betrayal has been the order of the month. The first group betrayed, the students, shouted about the Liberal Democrats' broken promise on tuition fees, but failed to observe that its own leadership...
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Acceptable bonus culture
There is an alternative to destroying undergraduate teaching in the arts and humanities and hiking tuition fees by 300 per cent. If Vince Cable is serious about getting tough with the banks, he...
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Tutorial lessons
I would like to correct the inaccurate assertion in the letter "Theory first, teaching later" (9 December) that Teach First features minimal university involvement.The Teach First initial teacher...
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Wrong coordinates
David Barton is wrong to say that I "attempt to belittle" the five published case studies from the research excellence framework impact pilots in English language and literature ("Beyond the...
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DIY end to journal tyranny
In my brand of "hardish" science, peer review still works tolerably well, in the sense that a good referee can improve a paper. However, the only effect of the reviewing is merely to maintain a...
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News in Brief
ChinaIt's Party time, Xi tells academyThe man seen as favourite to become China's next president has urged the nation's higher education sector to build closer links with the Communist Party. In a...
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Canada set to step on the international accelerator
Provinces agree to work together to promote a 'national brand' abroad. Sarah Cunnane reports