Stings and sweetness
As a beekeeping academic for years, I appreciated Ruth Farwell's "Hive talking" (Off-piste, 26 July). Students can be like bees: the more you wave them away, the more they come back for more. However...
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Stick to the standards
Simeon Underwood is right ("Still stuck on the audit wheel, and we could do with a credence revival", Opinions, 19 July). In the new world of consumerism that now characterises English higher...
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Vague gestures
Jonathan Steinberg ("Cult of personalities", 19 July) claims that the "collapse of the Soviet Union brought down the whole edifice of social science". This is more puzzling than claiming that...
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Caution: NHS work in progress
For six years the government has targeted the decline in UK health research. But a law putting GPs in charge of allocating local resources has left many clinicians fearing that those advances could...
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Year of living dangerously
In puritan times, says Thomas Docherty, we need sabbaticals more than ever
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Research Intelligence - 'Predators' who lurk in plain cite
Paul Jump on dubious open-access journals keen to attract unwary academics - and their cash
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Hoax history is bunk but there are truths to be learned from it
Lying About the Past course aims to teach students method and scepticism. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Regent's College received glowing praise after it became the latest private institution to secure degree-awarding powers. A leader in The Times on July declared that the award "introduces a welcome...
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Leader: Young guns can't go for it
Hefce figures show that the proportion of scholars under 30 is falling: the implications for the sector's future could be severe
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From Where I Sit - Corridors of uncertainty
At a symposium I attended recently, a senior academic apologised in advance if the paper she was delivering wasn't up to scratch. She'd had a harrowing week, she said, as sweeping cuts had been...
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Odds and Quads
The main illustration is taken from the Ripley Scroll (one of about 20 surviving copies) held by the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.Drawing on the work of the author and alchemist...
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Appointments
University of SouthamptonJenny FlemingAn academic who has spent more than 15 years working with police agencies worldwide on a number of interdisciplinary topics has become co-director of a...
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To serve and reflect
In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
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2 August 2012
A&E and R&D - Building research into the fabric of the NHS