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  2. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  3. Off Piste: Reinventing the past

    We bring home mementoes because we want a tangible memory of a time or place. Ulrike Zitzlsperger ponders souvenirs and how they reshape history

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  5. From where I sit: Smarting Italians look for change

    Italy's more progressive academics are still smarting from the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. Despite some hair-splitting over the weighting of the criteria, few have...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  6. Jerry Morris, 1910-2009

    The academic who decisively established the link between exercise and health - and was still exercising in his hundredth year - has died.Jerry Morris was born in Liverpool on 6 May 1910, the son of...

    #People

  7. Flawed Trac delivers only garbage

    The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills patently believes its own business-derived propaganda ("FEC scrutinised as deficit lingers", 12 November).The transparent approach to costing (Trac...

    #Letters

  8. Emperor's new impact 1

    It is something of a relief that an academic as eminent as Vernon Bogdanor is willing to question the link between good universities and economic growth ("Misguided philistines in a relationship that...

    #Letters

  9. Emperor's new impact 2

    I propose a simple measure of attitude to "impact" in the form of a questionnaire. The research excellence framework rating corresponding to each answer shall be referred to as the "L-index" of the...

    #Letters

  10. Aussie battlers

    Although Steve Smith, the president of Universities UK, may be right that "countries such as China will continue to invest heavily in their higher education systems" ("UK boosts standing but Asian...

    #Letters

  11. Beyond the headlines

    Michael MacNeil's description of Keith Burnett "attacking the unions in the press" (Letters, 12 November) is unfair and short-sighted, with eyes only for the article's headline ("Hanging tough", 29...

    #Letters

  12. Fully supported

    I would like to clarify a number of inaccuracies in your article "PR lecturer resigns in protest over lack of staff" (5 November). In anticipation of the departure of Paul Simpson, an acting course...

    #Letters

  13. Targeted fees

    When Lord Browne and his colleagues are considering the appropriate level for student fees in the future, I hope they will take careful account of where the money goes ("Review 'will keep hike in...

    #Letters

  14. Openly flexible

    Whatever the merits of open-access journals ("Put all the results out in the open", 12 November), the current system is by no means inflexible. Some colleagues and I have a paper featured in the...

    #Letters

  15. Virtual insanity

    The popularity of video games among young people has been growing for years, and although Generation Y's "successors" have contributed to this, it is doubtful that they have acquired skills making...

    #Letters