Pseuds' corner
Baffled by the ease with which titles promising to turn world history on its head have won huge audiences despite defying logic and lacking proof, Daniel Melia laboured to divine the hidden secrets...
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Oxford opens up on graduate destinations
Oxford has stolen a march on the rest of the sector by exposing its graduate destinations to detailed scrutiny - exploding a few myths in the process. Simon Baker investigates
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Fees iniquity offers firms an opportunity
As per your coverage, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has published its annual figures on applications grouped by subject and region ("Crisis, what crisis? Fall in applicants meets...
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Stuck on the sidelines
The University and College Union's decision to suspend its industrial action while negotiations take place over the Universities Superannuation Scheme in the pre-1992 sector is unwelcome. While the...
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Whole new ballgame
Regarding your recent news story, "Double bind and binary line menace for Welsh post-92s" (2 February): may I add the following important elements to the picture presented by the article?• The...
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The costs of indiscretion
I thank Anthony McIntyre for his response to my letter ("The sin of omission was Boston's, not ours", 2 February), but it misses my point - and proves it at the same time.No guarantee of...
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Schoolboy errors
Open letter to David Delpy, chief executive, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilDear David,I was shocked to read the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council press release, "...
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Good timing
With reference to your article "Scottish head pay control would avoid 'fat cat' slur" (2 February), it might be worth noting the felicitous coincidence of the publication of the review of Scottish...
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High price to pay
Our current source of helium is the alpha decay of uranium and its daughter radioisotopes in the rocks of oil and gas fields ("Compound the error", Letters, 26 January, and "For He, just add...
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Film review: The Woman in Black
Will Brooker is disappointed by an old-fashioned ghost tale that lacks the spirit of its superior source
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TV review: Protecting Our Children: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don't
Social workers are much maligned, says Gary Day, but all they do is try to help those who need it most
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Janet Folkes, 1959-2012
Both as an engineer and a world record-breaking balloonist, Janet Folkes was a high-flyer.Born on 20 July 1959, Dr Folkes grew up in Nottingham and studied at the University College of Wales...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of ExeterTrading placesA student and senior administrator saw what life was like on the other side of the fence as part of a two-day shadowing scheme. Imogen Sanders, a third-year English...
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Odds and quads
The largest ever donation of material to the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library came, somewhat surprisingly, from a Chicago ragtime pianist.