Parental requiem
Alec Ryrie seems to imply in his (absolutely appropriate) commendation of Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars ("The Canon", 7 May) that the book is "dedicated to God himself". I have no idea...
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Different wavelengths
I am surely not alone in being puzzled by the "Top journals in computer science" (Research intelligence, 14 May). By far the strangest inclusion was the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation...
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Dole it out to poor students
I always thought that the reason UK students pay lower fees than overseas ones is that educating British citizens helps the domestic economy, whereas foreign students take the benefits back home (...
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Don't fear open access
Kathryn Sutherland appears to fundamentally misunderstand the goals and methods of the open-access movement ("Those who disseminate ideas must acknowledge the routes they travel", 30 April).Her...
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Glorious structures or grey?
Adrian Furnham ("The petty meanness is bitterly recalled, but the kindness is repaid", 14 May) refers to university prospectuses showing off semi-attractive buildings and ignoring the "Stalinist...
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QMU's drama, no crisis
Queen Margaret University is not the subject of a Quality Assurance Agency investigation ("Quality concerns take centre stage as staff quit over dramatic changes", 14 May). The validation process for...
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Not all black on numbers
Your report "Overseas numbers plummet" (News, 30 April) and the New Zealand Herald story on which it is based are wrong to suggest that New Zealand's universities are "losing" foreign students. A few...
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Persecution (is) complex
The introduction of a managerialist culture has coincided with a rise in accusations of bullying. But is there really more mistreatment, or are academics accustomed to autonomy overreacting to firm...
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A kind of intellectual cancer
Good and powerful ideas have a tendency to spread wildly and destructively. Alec Ryrie ponders the many ways Darwinism has been used and abused and feels just a bit queasy
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Thriftiness will not tame deviant capitalism's damaging excesses
Belt-tightening may be on everyone's lips, but calls for parsimony won't stop a system that threatens to unravel society, writes Mary Evans
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
John Welshman gives the thumbs up to the suggestion that egalitarian countries work best
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21 May 2009
Bullying - Professional pressures, unfair tactics and shattered lives
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Chief scientist takes a stand
Beddington criticises homoeopathy in NHS and Home Secretary’s treatment of drugs adviser. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: When ‘excellence’ is not enough
Our desire, individually and collectively, to respect students, colleagues and universities is the best way to drive up teaching quality, says Tara Brabazon
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More complaints, but fewer justified, says OIA report
Independent Adjudicator fielded 900 student complaints in 2008, but only 7 per cent of the 630 cases it closed were upheld. Rebecca Attwood reports