Whose risk is it anyway?
According to well-informed sources, a risk without any apparent owner was found wandering around our campus last week. Although reports vary, it appears that this risk would have achieved a "...
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Research intelligence - The emeriti seizing a late licence to roam
Study finds many scholars believe their best work has come after retirement. Matthew Reisz reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• In a glimpse of how some conservative politicians in the US view their higher education system, a high-profile Republican lamented the loss of the sector to "the Left" on 25 January, urging...
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Leader: When the whip came down
Mr Willetts' professed love for the arts and humanities disciplines looks rather like discipline of another stripe entirely
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From where I sit - Conservative casting
There is currently a lively debate in Germany about the potentially dubious impact of applying for research funding through committees. One cynic summed this up as "having to go through a casting...
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldSusan KilcoyneA scientist who enjoys "physics on the edge" has been appointed professor of biomaterials at the University of Huddersfield. Susan Kilcoyne, formerly associate...
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Adrift from memory bliss
Kevin Fong is forced to come to terms with electronic isolation
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Hearts & minds
What makes us human? In major new books, an economist, a philosopher, an evolutionary biologist and two psychologists offer compelling - and very different - answers. Matthew Reisz writes
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The sin of omission was Boston's, not ours
Your readers will emerge much better informed about the Boston College-Belfast Project case having read Peter Geoghegan's informed piece rather than John Brewer's speculative letter on the subject (...
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Inimical ballot (1 of 2)
In June last year, Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, wrote in the New Statesman that "the prospect of 800,000 teachers in schools, colleges and universities being on...
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Inimical ballot (2 of 2)
Jane Hardy claims to write in a personal capacity ("Pension protection", Letters, 26 January), yet she is standing at the forthcoming UCU national executive committee elections as a member of the...
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Art not academe, again
The touchingly recurrent motif of a university core executive afflicted by incipient narcolepsy informs Peter Hill's assessment of the divergent purposes of the art school and the university ("The...
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Lean pickings
"Lean" approaches to cost reduction work best when an organisation has clear objectives with clear ideas on how specific activities contribute (or fail to contribute) to achieving them ("In hungry...
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Personal comments
It was the students who pushed for anonymous marking at the University of East Anglia, brought in, as I understand it, due to the "fairness" argument ("Attributive justice", 26 January). However, the...