Craven collaboration
The Arts and Humanities Research Council's decision to accede to the government's diktat to focus research on the "Big Society" is outrageous. It is bad enough that the coalition's market...
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Fightback on feedback
Your anonymous opinion piece, "Maintain standards? That's way more than my job's worth" (17 March), reflects unease at the increasing volume of the "student voice" as a quality control instrument in...
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Tax irregularities
I am trying to make sense of an inconsistency in the taxation of external-examiner fees.Since moving from Cambridgeshire to Leicestershire, I have discovered an irregularity in the way fees paid to...
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Wizard of Ozymandias (1 of 2)
I enjoyed Clive Bloom's "Hello, Yellow Brick Road" (17 March), but he repeats a myth that Frank Baum himself must have started about "Oz" having originated from the chance sighting of a filing...
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Wizard of Ozymandias (2 of 2)
It is interesting that there has been no media mention of the bicentenary of Shelley's expulsion from the University of Oxford on 25 March 1811. Is this because his crime was to disregard the first...
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Ruling classes
Are world leaders born or made? Can policy- based courses prepare the next generation for the challenges ahead? Harry Hoare discusses the role of philosophy in honing the hearts and minds of those...
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Serve the servants, or leadership by degrees
Finbarr Livesey describes the courses preparing the leaders of the future with theory, practical insights...and healthy doses of humility
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Familiarity breeds competence
As his report on university governance is released, Malcolm Gillies asserts that alumni will make the best governors as they are the ones who will hold the greatest stake in future
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Film review: Stone
Duncan Wu enjoys some sensitive performances in a Midwest drama about a prison warden's moral crisis
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TV review: Bible's Buried Secrets
The Bible holds many mysteries, and Gary Day is intrigued by the suggestion that God had a wife
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Campus round-up
Staffordshire UniversityMaths cash bonus adds upA university is introducing a teacher training course in secondary mathematics with a £9,000 bursary, reflecting the national shortage of teachers in...
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Odds and quads
This striking object, held by the observatory at Uppsala University, could be a fragment of the world's first mechanical calculator.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
The role of academics is criticism. As teachers, their role is to instil the critical spirit in students. The role of administration in the academy is not to hinder the development of intellectual...
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31 March 2011
Old faces, fresh scrutiny - Graduate gatekeepers needed to watch over the academy