Shelter from the storm: happy birthday, Cara
House of Lords event hears how council and the scholars it has saved have enriched the UK

House of Lords event hears how council and the scholars it has saved have enriched the UK

They wanted to believe, and so they believed. That seems to be the consensus among critics of the policy called austerity, including the anti-austerian, Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz...

Woolwich murder reignites debate over university radicalisation

Teacher-turned-scholar Jon Berry sends a message to the education minister on the theory behind best practice

Let’s penetrate the academic boundaries, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Christopher Phelps argues for the benefits of immigration, but in the wider labour market, as Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has observed, migration of unskilled labour leads to lower...
When I read “Eight days a week” (6 June) I was particularly struck by the account of Philip Moriarty, professor of physics at the University of Nottingham, who said that in order to make up for the...
How well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS and the university, Shattock quotes Sir Alan...
It is no secret that many business schools, including my own, use the Association of Business Schools’ Academic Journal Quality Guide to determine scholarly performance. Indeed, the publication...
Regarding “Neuron firing and hiring” (Opinion, 30 May). There is much to be learned from neuroscience, although the danger lies in extracting bits of information and extrapolating from them as if...
I am writing in response to Brian Sewell’s “Every picture tells a history” (23 May). I am well qualified to do so as I am a 58-year-old professor of electronic engineering who has just completed a...


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Robert J. Mayhew lifts off with a true balloon enthusiast

Nithikul Nimkulrat discusses an ‘indispensable means of working’