Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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Without fees reform, our children would really feel the pinch
David Willetts defends the coalition's student finance policy as a fair, progressive model that will support the present and protect the future
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Trauma: A Social Theory
"Human beings are storytelling animals," sociologist Jeffrey Alexander tells us halfway through this treatise on the nature of trauma in Western societies. The type of stories we tell ourselves and...
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The Harm in Hate Speech
This is a wonderful book. It conveys complex ideas in an accessible and convincing way. Perhaps I was easy to convince, being one of those who fall on the pro hate-speech laws side of the debate to...
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When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg
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The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
Radicalism characteristically runs in cycles, and after the post-1991 quiescence, the pursuit of democracy has re-emerged in the Arab Spring, in Tibet, Rangoon and Moscow, in the Occupy Wall Street...
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Halfway through reading this monograph I instinctively did what Leah Price says people do with books: I used it as a prop to fend off the unwanted overtures of a friendly tourist on a train. That is...
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Special topics in calamity physics
The man who kept Berkeley from sinking as California slashed its budget will step down this year. He tells Zo? Corbyn how disaster was averted even though huge challenges remain
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Exam? What exam?
"No one told me there was such an exam. If I'd known, I'd certainly have had a shot."That was the forthright response of our vice-chancellor to the recent claim by Fred Inglis in Times Higher...
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What doctors need is a dose of fairness (1 of 2)
Chris Hackley is wrong when he suggests that we need a more humane and compassionate style of doctoral examination ("The kindness of strangers", 24 May). In fact, what we need is more respect for...
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What doctors need is a dose of fairness (2 of 2)
While raising a number of valid concerns about the external assessment of PhDs in the UK, Chris Hackley seems to take consumer sovereignty beyond its limits (if it is indeed appropriate to education...
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Irreplaceable losses
For those of us who have long been active in developing educational and research provision beyond these shores, it is heartening to learn that David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...
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Wider invite
I welcome 糖心Vlog's argument that we don't just need more British students to study abroad: we need to encourage a wider range of universities to support student mobility as part of...
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In their own words
The University of Southampton's Centre for Global Englishes is to be welcomed ("A word of advices: let speakers of Englishes do it their way, UK told", News, 17 May). Much as the tradition of British...
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Same old tune
Regarding "Pianist wants comeback as review hits bum notes" (News, 10 May).I am currently organising a short season of recitals involving professional musicians to be funded by business sponsorship...