Stop asking silly questions
Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...
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Journal rankings help define, not distort
Dennis Tourish argues that journal rankings are haunting business schools and being used to micromanage researchers ("Publish or be damned", 16 December). He suggests that they distort scholarship by...
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Rejection of imputation
While we deplore the University of Bristol's high-handed decision to abolish the study of German literature pre-1750, we wish to dissociate ourselves from Cyril Edwards' unfounded imputation of...
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Tickets for a bumpy ride
Higher education is becoming such fun.Things were once so simple: institutions selected students, some people taught them, other people examined them and they went off with degrees, or not.A move to...
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Outside the ticked box
While I appreciate Tim Birkhead's critique of the "box-ticking culture" in secondary education and share his concerns about the dangers of its encroachment into higher education ("This is customer...
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Conference pairs like minds
Vinicius Licks identifies four essentials to get the world talking about Brazilian academics' ideas ("Don't always follow the crowd", 9 December). But a fifth one is missing. Junior and senior...
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A fresh look at publishing
To see a journal where the article format was redesigned for digital distribution, as discussed in the article "Rip it up and start again" (16 December), take a look at Optics Express (www....
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Why fight old battles?
It seems that 30 years after the death of C.P. Snow we are still fighting the somewhat pointless (liberal) arts versus science battle ("Guiding light in death's shadow"; "It's the breadth that...
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Philip M. Taylor, 1954-2010
A professor who considered himself "a goalkeeper pretending to be an academic", after turning to academe following a sporting injury, has died.Philip M. Taylor, of the University of Leeds, was the...
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Film review: Black Swan
Duncan Wu enjoys the intensity and obsession in a portrayal of a ballerina losing touch with reality
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TV review: Crime-time viewing
Gary Day enjoys a feast of detective fiction over Christmas, made all too poignant by real events
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Week in 糖心Vlog
The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...
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Leader: Standing on shaky ground
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
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From where I sit - Keen learners, but tough crowds
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...