Many happy returns (to some familiar themes and faces)
Funding cuts. Fees. Privatisation. Old institutions versus new. Ministerial (re)visions - and withering letters-page retorts. John Morgan journeys through 40 years of our back issues
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On the shoulders of giants
Matthew Reisz talks to the movers and shakers of the past 40 years who made 糖心Vlog what it is today
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Claude: The Enchanted Landscape
Sheila McTighe on a fresh look at Claude's working process, at his embodiment of place and at his idealisation of the pastoral
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Diary
LondonHoneypotIt is 1982. Susanne is a beautiful Swedish woman in her mid-thirties. So what impels her to leave behind her husband and child, embark on a wild journey of self-discovery and volunteer...
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The Pick - Film
Film Tate Modern (until 11 March 2012)Digital cinema has enormous potential, argues Tacita Dean in the book that accompanies her new installation, but today it is still too "blandly euphoric at all...
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Thought control: new evidence
Alarming allegations of "impact rigging" have been prompted by the revelation that Gordon Lapping's recent address to the Poppleton branch of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos on "Epistemic...
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Accentuate negatives to identify 'sinners'
One is struck by the methodology of league tables, both national and international, being based entirely on positives ("US muscle reigns, but there's a world of difference in value", 6 October). What...
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Control is just an illusion
Fred Inglis is bloody angry about the state of truth in the academy ("Economical with the actualité", 6 October). Good for him, it's about time somebody was.However, he is wrong when he depicts the...
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This is hardly reassuring
Anthony McClaran's defence of "educational oversight" ("Oversight is essential", Letters, 6 October) sits uneasily alongside your report "'Visa scam' at college linked to University of Wales" (www....
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New and in tune
Many traditional universities may be ignoring market trends and thereby endangering their future student numbers ("Exclusive elite fails to attract poorer students", 29 September).The most recent...
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Ouroboros finance
David Willetts claimed at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that in future most universities will not need to comply with European Union procurement directives because they will be less...
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In scholarship we trust
Terence Karran's fascinating article on academic freedom ("Unshackled minds help institutions to conquer the greatest heights", 29 September) is nonetheless missing a crucial concept: trust - trust...
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A pox on all their hustings
As a current student, a former Liberal Democrat voter and a very vocal critic of the coalition and its plans for higher education (and indeed the rest of the country), I should probably agree with...
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Actions speak louder
I note that among the candidates aiming to be the University and College Union's general secretary next year, the incumbent is a member of the Labour Party while a well-placed challenger from UCU...
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Highly irritable
Yvonne H. Howell gives a rightly enthusiastic review of Nikolai Krementsov's A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science, his stimulating study of the...