Reclaim your linguistic property
Chants, used positively by Tottenham Hotspur fans, must not be appropriated by anti-Semites looking for an excuse to tout hatred, says Emma Rees
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Are questionable marketing claims slipping past the watchdogs?
The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses
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23 January 2014
Sea change - Winners and losers in Australia鈥檚 uncapped student numbers race
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World in brief - 23 January 2014
United StatesStanford鈥檚 Steele heads to BerkeleyA highly ranked university in California has poached a senior academic from one of its nearest rivals. It was announced last week that Claude Steele, a...
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THE Scholarly Web - 23 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Nick Wright
We speak to the pro聽vice鈥慶hancellor for research and innovation at Newcastle University
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Reginald Foakes, 1923-2013
One of the leading Shakespearean scholars of his generation has died
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News in brief - 23 January 2014
Student recruitmentSalford revises ad-spend dataLast week 糖心Vlog reported that the University of Salford had trebled its spending on marketing to prospective students between 2010-11...
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Grant winners - 23 January 2014
National Institute for Health ResearchPublic Health Research programmeAward winner: Helen ElseyInstitution: University of LeedsValue: 拢464,761Understanding the impacts of care farms on health and...
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Title holder supreme
Further to Richard M.鈥塖. Wilson鈥檚 letter (9聽January) on the confusing plethora of titles adopted by UK universities to identify academic staff, it is worth remembering that the former colleges of...
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Burdensome language
What does it say about the status of teaching (and, by extension, students) in some universities when a news report refers to academics being 鈥渇reed鈥 from 鈥渢he burden of teaching鈥 and 鈥減rotected鈥...
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Digital humanities 2.0
I could not agree more with Geoffrey Crossick that the arts and humanities are 鈥渨ay behind鈥 the sciences in the open access debate (鈥淒igital age of opportunity for the monograph鈥, News, 16聽January)....
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Hitlerian evolution
Your reviewer of my book Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (Books, 16聽January) might well secure an appointment with her optometrist.She claims that...
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Moocs: giving or gobbling?
Surprise, surprise: the turkeys vote against Christmas (鈥淗igher education 鈥榟ype cycle鈥 that can be both vicious and virtuous鈥, Opinion, 9 January; 鈥淗its and myths: Moocs may be wonderful idea, but...
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Leaders need a solid inside knowledge
Re 鈥淟eading question: scholar or executive?鈥, News, 16聽January. There is a myth that top executives from one field do well in another. For example, it was thought that stuffy engineers were ill-...