International amnesty the least it could do
I work in a voluntary capacity with international students in Bristol. I am also engaged in documenting the history of foreign students in the UK since 1960.The current situation at London...
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Shelf delusion
Sarah E. Thomas, Bodley's librarian, understandably mounts a defence of a great library in "Brickbats don't stack up" (Letters, 30 August), her reply to my letter of 23 August ("Shelf harm"). However...
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This corrosion spreads
Terran Lane struck a chord with me, irrespective of the obvious differences between the US and UK higher education systems ("I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right",...
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One for all
I am glad that Søren Holm thinks my book Bioethics: All That Matters is an accessible and readable introduction (Books, 9 August), but it is unfair of him to "ghettoise" it as being relevant only to...
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Debased coinage
I have always read with interest Felipe Fernández-Armesto's regular contributions to ߣߣÊÓƵ but was dismayed at his recent cover story ("Reassuringly expensive", 30 August). How could...
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Research intelligence - Lab results: repeat as necessary
PLoS One backs a validation initiative that will duplicate experiments. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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US changes dose to treat public health malaise
Revised curricula will emphasise leadership and time spent away from the lab. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• How has the London Met visa ban played abroad? In short, terribly. "5,000 Pakistani students in UK face deportation in 60 days", screamed a Daily News headline on 31 August (the story mistakenly...
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Leader: Education is our stock in trade
Fear of losing students to the for-profit sector is driving some institutions to try beating private providers at their own game
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From Where I Sit - Invention of wholesome tradition
What do academics eat when they meet to talk about eating? There's no single answer.At the first academic conference in food studies I attended, held at Lancaster University, the food was awful. For...
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Odds and quads
The wooden box contains the hands of David Low (1891-1963), the political cartoonist, cast in wax by Madame Tussauds in London.In 1933, when the waxwork was made, Britain's political cartoonists were...
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Appointments
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJason PowellManchester Metropolitan University's newly appointed professor of community practice and social justice said he felt "genuine excitement and delight"...
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Neural code-breaker
Despite being the father of modern computing, Alan Turing’s greatest impact on contemporary science may stem from his insights into altogether more complex hardware, argues Ray Dolan: the human brain
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Hashtag recruitment and the social network's global reach
A US study downgrades the importance of agents. Elizabeth Gibney and Jack Grove report