Trust exercises benevolence as actors enter new life stage
Matthew Reisz reports on the bursaries helping ex-thespians to pursue higher education goals
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10 January 2013
Multilayered intellect - What extra insight does a scholar gain from a varied career path?
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Joseph DiasInstitution: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustValue: £2,284,684Scaphoid waist internal...
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Arthur Collis, 1916-2012
A distinguished academic authority on social work has died.Arthur Collis was born in Leyton, East London, on 13 November 1916, and won a scholarship to the local county high school. He began his...
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Utopian possibilities and obstacles (1 of 2)
Notwithstanding my huge respect for Ronald Barnett, I would like to take issue with his characterisation of what he calls "the public-good theorists" ("Head in the clouds, feet on the ground", 3...
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Utopian possibilities and obstacles (2 of 2)
Three cheers for Ronald Barnett's conception of the utopian university! It won't get very far, though, in today's down-to-earth, cynical, quantified, realistic, critically minded, academic arena -...
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To serve the public (1 or 2)
Jonathan Shepherd makes a number of strong points in his article calling for joined-up thinking in research for public services ("Appliance of social science", 3 January), but he also commits a...
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To serve the public (2 of 2)
Universities play a key role in providing many professional qualifications but Jonathan Shepherd rightly highlights the need for graduate "practitioner-scientists" doing real-world research in our...
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Widen the net, Oxbridge (1 of 2)
Miles Hewstone is right to agonise about whether Oxbridge selection mechanisms are error-free ("Selection mechanism", 3 January), but what about the students who never apply in the first place? If...
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Widen the net, Oxbridge (2 of 2)
A mathematical model to predict the future success of Oxbridge interviewees might somehow have to account not only for points scored by talking the right talk during interview but any irrational...
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Of little assurance
The idea that there is universal support in the sector for an insurance scheme to protect institutions from the fallout of UK Border Agency decisions is erroneous ("Insurance against UK Border raids...
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Croeso from the UKBA
Patrick McGhee ("Predictive text", 3 January) begins his imaginative forecast for 2013 with news of a new requirement from the UK Border Agency for student entry into the UK: demonstrating fluency in...
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UCU united
It was with interest that we read Fawzi Ibrahim's article "A house divided cannot stand" (20 December) on his perceptions of the state of the University and College Union.A healthy union contains...
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THE podcast: 10 January 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanNews editor Simon Baker, deputy news editor John Morgan and reporter Jack Grove join Chris Parr on this week’s THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from the latest...
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Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger
Shahidha Bari commends an expert guide to figures of foreignness from Coleridge to 9/11