The week in higher education
• An open letter to The Daily Telegraph on 7 December from nearly 500 professors lamented that the government's higher education White Paper would allow "private, for-profit companies substantial...
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From where I sit - Ethical engagement
In Mexico, shortly after Felipe Calderon took the presidential office in December 2006, he launched a major crackdown on the country's drug cartels. Since then, it has been estimated that about 45,...
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Appointments
University of New South WalesMichelle SimmonsA quantum computation expert has been honoured as New South Wales' Scientist of the Year at the NSW Government's Science and Engineering Awards 2011....
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For fair access, Oxford needs to drop the snobbery
Not being 'suckered' by posh veneer is the key to succeeding, Baroness Kennedy tells Simon Baker
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Thinking of a Master Plan
Alan Ryan on how California’s famed system might work in the UK
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Striving to be first among equals
The egalitarian bent of Dutch society has been reflected in its higher education sector - until now. Jack Grove discovers that government and global forces are spurring some institutions to try to...
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If you go down to a campus today...
You're in for a big surprise. From Gothic castles and follies to an airport (and something not too fragrant), university sites across the land are home to some extraordinary places, discovers Matthew...
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Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (1 of 2)
Having, pre-retirement, been an academic in what is now called "digital humanities", I much appreciated Matthew Reisz's sapient article on the current state of play ("Surfdom", 8 December). Beyond...
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Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (2 of 2)
Matthew Reisz's apparent irritation with the "democratic" aspirations of the Online Chopin Variorum Edition might have been lessened had he troubled to understand whom the OCVE serves and how it does...
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Mad Men don't innovate
The i-Map study ("i-Map finds too many weeds in the portfolio garden", 8 December) found an order of waste in UK universities' new course development, but subjecting new course ideas to conventional...
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Irreligious tones? (1 of 2)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Bless us with a silent night", 8 December) has been listening to the wrong tunes.While Shepherds Watched, a paraphrase of Luke 2: 8-14, may be a little dull when sung to...
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Irreligious tones? (2 of 2)
Jorge Cham, in his cartoon Piled Higher and Deeper (24 November), displays to his credit an inkling of the Lord's Prayer, but his adaptation of it is offensive to anyone who takes Christianity...
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Minds for sports, not ethics
In discussing US universities' sports programmes and, specifically, the alleged child sexual abuse scandal and cover-up at Pennsylvania State University, the article "Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector'...
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Any route to access will do
Wes Streeting's opinion article "Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion" (8 December) wrongly accuses the Office for Fair Access of "directing" universities to divert money...
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Improved outcomes
Geoffrey Channon is quite right to warn us of the careless use of "neoliberal business-speak" such as delivery of courses (Letters, 8 December). However, he is wrong to include in that pernicious...