Subtleties do not compute
The idea of robots taking over care functions for the infirm ("Are friends electric?", 9 June) reminds me of the story about the owner of an intelligent robot who planned to entertain some friends on...
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Look it up in anger
I am writing regarding the entry about George Orwell in the online edition of Oxford University Press' A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works. The entry credits Orwell with the authorship of 13...
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Low fees, fewer options (1 of 3)
In a recent news article, Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, talks about affordability with regard to fees ("Private challenge a major influence on London Met fees",...
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Low fees, fewer options (2 of 3)
Your news article about London Met pictured some rather simple hand-coloured A4 posters highlighting prospective course closures. One referred to "Perfoming Arts", another to "Carribean Studies".Let'...
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Low fees, fewer options (3 of 3)
It was interesting to read Malcolm Gillies' comment that "any sneering at things being vocational, I think, (comes) from the elitist section of society". However, many prestigious subjects (for...
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Spoiler warning
I was looking forward to reading Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, but now Vernon Bogdanor has revealed what happens in the end ("Fascinating rhythm", 9 June). Drat - I might have to go...
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Film review: Incendies
Duncan Wu admires an adaptation of a play about how people lose control of their lives during conflicts
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TV review: Poor Kids
This government's policy has little comfort to offer the UK's children who live in poverty, says Gary Day
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Philip Brown, 1939-2011
A technician on whom the University of Essex depended for more than 30 years for his "technical ability, dedication and organisation" has died.Philip Brown was born in Colchester on 4 October 1939,...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of East LondonHelping those who help othersAn online master's course aims to provide aid relief workers with greater understanding of their often harrowing working environments. The MSc in...
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Odds and quads
These very different nautically themed objects both come from the collections of the University of Sheffield.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution, by Thomas Docherty
A left-wing critique of right-wing policies replaces one myopia with another, laments Chris Brink
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16 June 2011
The Minerva manoeuvre - It’s time to restore wisdom to its central place in the curriculum