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  1. Review wars

    In an unprecedented UK move, Professor Lapping of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies has announced that he is to institute a libel action against Dr E. Stobart, the reviewer of his recently...

    #Laurie

  2. Slip your intellectual leash

    Cato, the feline friend of Dan Cohn-Sherbok, puts the cat among the pigeons and says don’t be a mutt, keep a moggie

    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  3. Practising what we preach

    Malcolm Gillies on our duty to offer students ethical and intellectual models

    #Columnists
    #Malcolm Gillies
    #Opinion

  5. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  6. Off Piste: Kin, kinder and kindness

    Richard Larschan recalls a genealogical quest and how the generosity of strangers in a foreign land led to unintentional revelations

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  7. Leader: Red tape: A form of distrust

    As audit overloads academics, it also undermines their freedoms, impedes their work and damages their public standing

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  8. From where I sit: boiling point

    While the fatal shootings at the University of Alabama in Huntsville last month were shocking in themselves, they also must have prompted much pondering among academics about the stressful road to...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  9. Michael Goulder, 1927-2010

    A leading theologian who abandoned a promising career in the church to become an "unaggressive atheist" has died.Michael Goulder was born on 31 May 19 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford...

    #People

  10. Kudos for tackling the taboo research totem 1

    I was surprised that John Haldane's lecture on the relative importance of teaching against research received no support in last week's Letters pages ("Teaching is the highest purpose, argues thinker...

    #Letters

  11. Kudos for tackling the taboo research totem 2

    The scale and implications of the changes under way in higher education do not seem to have fully registered with the academy. In many universities, the situation at the chalk face, or rather the...

    #Letters

  12. Centres must hold 1

    Outstanding teaching is needed if UK universities are to compete in a global market. League tables and the National Student Survey have drawn attention to learning and teaching and helped to create...

    #Letters

  13. Centres must hold 2

    Gloom about the Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) must be seen in light of their contribution to their subject areas.The Higher Education Funding Council for England's review of...

    #Letters

  14. Podcast potential

    It was disappointing to see another story with a limited appreciation of the educational and pedagogic uses of podcasting ("Podcasts: enhancing or replacing normal lectures", 25 February). The...

    #Letters

  15. Defend Black History Month

    We write to protest the slashing of funds for Black History Month by the London Mayor. In 2009, Boris Johnson praised BHM for its vital work in educating people about the "historical role and the...

    #Letters