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  1. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  2. Leader: Unite to fight the betrayal

    Ministers led students on then abandoned them in rough weather. Universities must stick together to avoid the same fate

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  3. From where I sit - Meetings of more than minds

    Academic conferences are sometimes dismissed as frivolous and self-indulgent, even - or perhaps especially - by those who take part in them.And frankly, given that my last paper was delivered at 8 o'...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  4. Peter Townsend, 1928-2009

    Peter Townsend, a pioneering sociologist and poverty campaigner, has died.He was born in Middlesbrough on 6 April 1928 and brought up by his mother and grandmother.Although he secured scholarships to...

    #People

  5. University of Oxford - Gates boost to malaria research

    An international network of malaria scientists is to be established following a $20 million (£12.5 million) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  6. Reductionism won't save the world

    As confirmed interdisciplinarians, there were very few points with which we could agree in Robert Segal's article "Crossing borders can lead to gold - but so can digging deep" (18 June). Having...

    #Letters

  7. Impact assessment

    I was at the research excellence framework conference last week ("Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF", 18 June).Your focus on what we pretty much knew already - that peer...

    #Letters

  8. Tongue-tied 1

    Recent weeks have seen a fresh wave of anxiety concerning the health of modern languages in the UK at all levels of education.How comforting it is, therefore, to read in the "education strategy" of...

    #Letters

  9. Tongue-tied 2

    Futurologist Ian Pearson ("Wisdom received, over and out", 18 June) suggests that "more rapid reverse engineering of brain processes" coupled with an alleged exponential progress in technology will...

    #Letters

  10. Face value 1

    Deborah Rogers' view of Facebook is unnecessarily negative ("I poke dead people: the paradox of Facebook", 18 June). The amusement to be found in poking, joining frivolous "interest" groups and...

    #Letters

  11. Face value 2

    It was amusing to see Deborah Rogers suggest that Facebook may have "jumped the shark".The phrase originated from an episode of the US television series Happy Days in which, allegedly, the...

    #Letters

  12. Not-so-super-determinism

    I want to correct Sian Moore's continued inaccuracies (Letters, 18 June) concerning Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World, which I co-edited with John McIlroy. Moore claims that we present "an...

    #Letters

  13. Question of balance

    For Richard Austen-Baker's proposal (Letters, 18 June) to really work, surely all academic appointments should also be half administration? Much better, surely, for all concerned to recognise that...

    #Letters

  14. Crystal clear on library value

    The consultation that is now demanded over the future of the University of London's institute libraries (Letters, 4 and 18 June) has already been done, in Sir Ivor Crewe's 2008 Review of Hefce...

    #Letters

  15. Still at the crease

    Thank you, Michael W. Thomas (Letters, 18 June), for drawing readers' attention to my "innings" of letters. If there's one thing worse than being talked about, etc etc. However, I know I can trust...

    #Letters