In our household, which is made up of one journalist and one journalist-turned-academic, we have been saying for months: "Wait until the fallout from universities' failed investments is made public."...
Harold Hankins, the engineer who steered the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) through challenging times, has died.Born on 18 October 1930, he attended Crewe...
My colleague Thomas Docherty is wrong ("Total disclosure a sign of the academy's time-and-motion sickness", 30 July).The Transparent Approach to Costing (Trac) is not a time-and-motion study. Time-...
I am pleased that ÌÇÐÄVlog has chosen to stimulate the debate on academic freedom ("What is freedom? Choosing your v-c", 30 July). In the spirit of academic freedom, I wish reply to the...
In light of the sector's commercialisation, the articles by Robert Mighall and Jonathan Baldwin on branding were useful ("What sets you apart?" 23 July).Branding is not just relevant to the...
Hooray! At long last we've heard the real truth about mathematics ("Artists may hold the formula for a renaissance in maths", 23 July).I have been teaching primary school mathematics for the past...
Having read your coverage of Ron Barnett's plenary address at the ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy conference about the ethos that might shape the universities of the future ("Selfish models lose social...
Lord Mandelson is right to support a higher education system that "invests in everything from Classics to quantum physics" ("Lord Mandelson says higher fees must mean more help for the poor", 30 July...
We have two observations on Craig Evan Klafter's article on university patenting ("The missing link", 23 July).Klafter bases his argument on universities that employ patent lawyers: we take this to...
I think it unlikely that Frank Wilczek and his wife have celebrated 100 billion seconds together (Books, 23 July). Had they done so, they might be able to give us eyewitness accounts of the Elamites...
Keith Flett's letter in last week's ÌÇÐÄVlog - that getting on the front page of The Sun would count as "impact of research" - misses the point. Impact is not about sexing up or dumbing...
Keith Flett mentions Max Clifford, but Flett is the greater self-publicist. My research into publicly cited criminologists was intended to be provocative. And, taking Roger Brown's point on the need...
Apropos the topic of last week's issue ("Hearts and minds: Making academic marriages work"): can I just check that I haven't subscribed to Cosmopolitan? Whatever next - an article about Sex and the...
Was it only coincidence that the post of Met Office chair in weather systems (ÌÇÐÄVlog, 30 July) appeared on the same day as reports in the national press revising this year's summer...
As state funding declines, alumni donations are needed more than ever. Hannah Fearn reports on how universities are sharpening their fundraising skills