Children of the revolution
For the late Julia Swindells, radicalism and friendship were always intimately linked. Here, she describes the youthful influences that led her down a political path
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London Met links with stag-do firm
Master's course offers expert oversight from 'spa with strippers' tour operator. Jack Grove reports
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Bound for glory
Alan Ryan on the faith in education that inspired ‘Great Books’ collections
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Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
There’s more to the ancient world than dusty toff-on-toff talk, ‘professor of bloody Classics’ tells Matthew Reisz
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Wider open spaces
Freely accessed papers are simply points in a constellation of scientific communication with the public, says Alice Bell
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Why so prickly?
International students have enriched the UK and its universities immeasurably. It makes little sense for the Home Office to keep them out, argues Edward Acton
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (2 of 2)
Nicola Dandridge is correct in only one respect in her assessment of the coverage of Dutch universities in the British media. British students are not yet flocking to the Netherlands, nor are they...
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Drink least of our worries
Muslim students at London Metropolitan University and elsewhere must be groaning in despair at Malcolm Gillies' recent ill-advised comments about alcohol and Islam ("Raising the bars a 'moral' matter...
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No laughing matter
Philip Diamond is wrong to think that Michael Duff's cultural impact should allay his concerns about the impact agenda ("Winning formula", Letters, 12 April). Pathways to Impact requires researchers...
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Multiple feedback
Regarding your news story "QAA's new riff on student feedback: positive notes or waves of jargon?" (12 April): although criticisms are understandable, it is good to see that the Quality Assurance...
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Breaking totem's taboos
In his review of The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis (29 March), John Forrester berates the fact that we did not write a cultural history of psychoanalysis and its...
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Grit and pearls of wisdom
Your focus on the value of failure is to be welcomed ("Get back in the saddle", 29 March). It may well be salutary to stress that all need not always have prizes. It is surely also true that...
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Rune with a view
The "pictured engravings" in "Norse code" (12 April) are not runes, but the only figural ornaments accompanying the 33 12th-century Norse runic inscriptions in Maeshowe (which is a chambered cairn,...
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (1 of 2)
It is flattering that the chief executive of Universities UK has been so impressed by the "marketing" of Dutch universities in the UK that she has spent some of her valuable time writing about it in...
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Richard Descoings, 1958-2012
Richard Descoings, who was the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, has been described by colleagues as "a tremendously charismatic figure" and has been praised by Nicolas Sarkozy,...