Ignatieff row 2
Michael Ignatieff was once a socialist historian and an editor of History Workshop Journal . Later, he appeared as a liberal academic with views on morality in what was then the broadsheet press. Now...
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Justifying the means
The student satisfaction survey mean of 3.7/5 does not translate into a mean of 74 per cent, because the lowest mark was not 0, but 1 ("'Sexy' courses trail traditional in student poll", September 9...
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Conservation piece
The excellent feature on the conservation of Jeremy Bentham's auto-icon ("Radical pants and the pursuit of happiness", September 9) related the history of how Bentham's skeleton and clothes were...
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Language bursaries
I was interested to read your article on languages students having to pay fees for an extra year abroad ("Financial aid plea for language students". August 26). Aston University will be offering...
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Scientific revelation
Aquinas said: " Impossibile est quod de eodam sit fides et scientia " ( De Ver , XIV), which I would interpret as meaning that those of us who believe in the revealed truth of the Most Noodley Church...
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Campus pogrom
September 15 marked the 70th anniversary of the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, which excluded Jews from Germany's universities. Before Hitler came to power, Jewish academics represented about...
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Tired not emotional
Thank you so much for the Top Tips on managing a tutorial ("Working knowledge", September 9). Although I can appear tired, in 25 years I've never had to hide drunkenness or boredom. But then, working...
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Unwelcoming UK
The puzzled tone that informs your article "Worries grow as Chinese shun UK" (September 2) is surprising given the widely publicised refusal of study visas to substantial numbers of bona fide Chinese...
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Runaway success
The new campus of the University of East London Docklands stands a high chance of being awarded the accolade of the UK's "all on one site, complete with student accommodation campus near a busy...
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Be afraid, be very afraid... no, don't
Frank Furedi warns that academics are helping spread scare stories in their bid to exert influence and gain funds from states with fear-based agendas Academics often criticise politicians for...
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Campus curiosities
The ornately carved oak door that can be seen at Brunel University's Runnymede campus was once very familiar to the Victorian engineer who gave his name to the institution. Indeed, Isambard Kingdom...
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The institute of bad ideas
If you challenge the sharpest minds to solve to problems facing academe, the results can be remarkable. Now repeat the exercise - but this time with some of the most inept scholars to ever stow away...
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The grim legacy of the poisoned umbrella
Fred Halliday examines assassinations that shaped the modern world, including one that empowered bin Laden The rioting in Khartoum over the death in a helicopter crash of John Garang, veteran leader...
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Poems from the academy
From The Princess by Alfred Tennyson And then we stroll'd For half the day thro' stately theatres Bench'd crescent-wise. In each we sat, we heard The grave Professor. On the lecture slate The circle...
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Michael Moore's opposite number
Evan Coyne Maloney is on a mission... to expose the domination of US campuses by PC lefties. Stephen Phillips reports You need to leave or you're going to jail," intones the policeman. The camera...