In place of strife
Regarding "Speedier alternative to 'obsolete' OIA unveiled" (1 September) and "OIA remains the final refuge" (Letters, 8 September): we feel we should clarify the Centre for Justice's role.What is...
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Feedback loop
It is astonishing that the issue of how to use student feedback is still so problematic ("Efforts to secure student feedback 'missing the mark'", www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 4 September).It was...
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Tweet remembrance
The Library of Congress isn't the only organisation interested in Twitter preservation ("Memory failure detected", 1 September).Last year, Jisc funded developments to the TwapperKeeper Twitter...
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Historical myth
What is this "decline" in the numbers taking GCSE history that keeps cropping up in your and others' pages (Letters, 8 September)? History's share of GCSE entries has remained stable for the past 10...
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Amateur ethos
Who do Christopher Grey and the collective of historians think they are kidding (Letters, 8 September)? It's not David Starkey's alleged lack of expertise that bugs them - it's what he said. Moreover...
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French lesson
When I was 17, 64 years ago, I sat the Higher School Certificate. In French, there was a grammar and essay paper and one based on the study of a play by Jean Racine, another by Pierre Corneille,...
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Mourn their passing
The University of Roehampton study that the seeds of some trees on Madagascar could be dispersed only through the droppings of a species of lemur (Campus round-up, 8 September) reminded me of an...
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Film review: Bill Cunningham New York
Duncan Wu is charmed by a modest octogenarian photographer and the vivid street style he documents
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TV reviews: Are You Good or Evil? & Appropriate Adult
Finding a gene for psychopathy does not help us face depravity beyond comprehension, says Gary Day
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Geoffrey Ford, 1942-2011
In addition to being a distinguished librarian, Geoffrey Ford was also famed for his "astoundingly untidy" office and formidable collection of Rudyard Kipling books.Born in 1942, Mr Ford studied...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...
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Odds and quads
These images of monkeys, from around 1840, are magic lantern slides.
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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 higher education
? When he learned last year that vice-chancellors were earning an average annual salary of ?220,000, Aaron Porter seethed with righteous indignation, describing the sum as "obscene" and accusing...