Who needs enemies?
Your report on a conference "defending" philosophy against university cuts is bizarre, particularly since it suggests that the event aimed to bring philosophers together to build a united front ("...
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A short hop over the pond
Your article "UK influence abroad at risk from lack of overseas study" (3 June) fails to mention American studies, an important subject that has promoted study abroad since the Fulbright Act of 1946...
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Debate, not threats
The University and College Union's response to Nicola Dandridge's article on the reform of the Universities Superannuation Scheme invites employers to begin talks "to help find a joint solution" to...
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That mission thing
THE's excellent analysis "Soul searching, not soul stirring" (20 May) missed two important aspects of the process of creating believable, evocative and meaningful mission statements.First, if the...
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Art of the matter
I am grateful to the architectural historian James Stevens Curl for his overwhelmingly positive review of my book, Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art ("From Bildung to buildings", 3 June)....
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Hegemonic disease
After the postmodern, the altermodern, the digimodern and performatism ("Successor states to an empire in free fall", May), how about the virmodern? Namely, that stage of capitalism where the...
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Survival of the fittest 1
I was fascinated by Catherine Hakim's article on "erotic capital" ("Attractive forces at work", 3 June). However, are we to conclude from the absence of an accompanying photograph of the author that...
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Survival of the fittest 2
"Erotic capital": in other words, dress smartly, smile nicely and you will make a good impression. My mother told me that 40 years ago.David Bowers, Head of learning development, University Campus...
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Actually, it's three brains
I never thought I would find myself contradicting both Dr Loab and The Poppletonian ( May), but David Willetts appears to have not one, not two, but a trio of brains. The first appears to have been...
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The Cinderella students
Part-timers have it hard: more commitments and responsibilities but much less support than full-timers, as the biggest survey of their lot to date shows. But changes in the political agenda could...
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The colour of money
Sustainability on campus is a vital issue, and in a climate of austerity it also makes financial sense. That fiscal impetus is good news, because as the Green League table shows, the sector still has...
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10 June 2010
Umbrellas for the Cinderellas - Part-timers deserve support and protection
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New World order
Conference hears that the Americas have reasons to be cheerful in the overseas-student market. John Morgan reports
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Free-thought transfer?
Threatened Middlesex centre may relaunch at Kingston in September. John Morgan reports
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The e-book sector
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed