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Seeking full disclosure

Adrian Deeny of University College London makes a plea for accurate reporting of animal experiments, in light of coverage in the Daily Mirror of a report on cat research in the UK (“An open and shut...

On the right path

The University of South Florida has been collaborating with INTO University Partnerships since 2010. USF’s decision to partner with INTO did not arise from a “desperate” position as characterised in...

Be more dog

I read with sympathy and agreement Sir Roderick Floud’s article “From serendipitous excellence to a world-class omnishambles” (Opinion, 19 June), in which he talked about the difficulties caused by...

A little less conversation

Given the absence of any explanation from the University of Warwick for Thomas Docherty’s suspension (“Employer gags critic of ‘authoritarian’ sector”, News, 19 June), the suspicion must be that he...

Closure is no balm for Open University staff

I am one of the people affected by the closure of The Open University’s East Grinstead regional centre (“OU staff express anger over centre closure”, 19 June).A university spokesman cited the “...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 26 June 2014

News in brief - 26 June 2014

Course league table proposalRankings that are just the jobAn adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their graduates’ employment rates and earnings. A...

The week in higher education - 26 June 2014

The president of the Oxford Union will face no further action from police after he was arrested on suspicion of raping a fellow student and attacking another, The Daily Telegraph reported on 19 June...

Tales of continental drift

The globalised academy offers ambitious scholars a plethora of opportunities, yet expat life is nothing if not unpredictable

Turing party?

In what he described as “a major research breakthrough”, our Head of Computer Science, Professor L. E. D. Scart, has raised serious doubts about our vice-chancellor.Professor Scart told our reporter...

Daniel Binney, George McKay, Roger Morgan, Vanessa Pupavac and Sharon Wheeler...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, by Mo Moulton

Niamh Gallagher relishes a stimulating and valuable study of a neglected period of history

Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World, by Philip Pettit

John Shand on a philosopher’s idea of freedom as non-domination

Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin, by William Zimmerman

Lara Cook on a lively history of an enduring style of government and the prospect of democracy

The Athletic Trap: How College Sports Corrupted the Academy, by Howard L. Nixon II

John Harris on an analysis that advocates change in how universities manage sport programmes