The Pick - Watteau: The Drawings
Watteau: The DrawingsSackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Art, LondonJean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) is best known for paintings of dreamy mythological scenes and aristocratic picnics known as fêtes...
Watteau: The DrawingsSackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Art, LondonJean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) is best known for paintings of dreamy mythological scenes and aristocratic picnics known as fêtes...

Brian Bryan, our Deputy Head of REF Strategy, has defended Hefce's decision to omit Polish and Portuguese speakers from its new modern languages subpanel for the research excellence framework.He...
A generation of v-cs swayed by the rhythms of meritocracy are finding fresh reserves of restraint on pay, regardless of background

The majority of UK universities should pull out of research, according to Phil Willis. Paul Jump reports

David Willetts has frequently urged universities to make more information available for students - but the University of York has taken things a step too far. In an accidental leak, reported on 17...
In recent weeks, conversations about higher education have focused primarily on rising tuition fees. Although the decision to pursue higher education is clearly affected by the cost of tuition,...

Through her work as a local champion of the rights of the lowest-paid staff in higher education, Sheena Grant also became a national figure in the trade union movement.She was born in Aberdeen on 14...

Malcolm Gillies discusses the reality of university reputation
Frank Furedi evokes the Aristotelian notion of phronesis, as interpreted by Hannah Arendt, in support of his claim that "Our job is to judge" (17 March). In a classic non sequitur, he then expresses...
In "Cutting the Gordian knot" (17 March), Alasdair Smith argues that removing price and number restrictions from our universities would reduce costs, as would limiting the intake of "unqualified"...
Predictably, the number of student places will need to be restricted in some way to constrain state expenditure on student financial support. David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...
In his piece "The end is not nigh" (Opinion, 3 March), Sir Adam Roberts argues that we need to be more precise about the threats posed to the humanities and social sciences and less paranoid about...
I am writing to add my voice in protest to the proposal to close the philosophy programme at Keele. I went there in 1989, one of the first of my family to attend university. I am the son of a butcher...
In the cultural commentary piece on The Wizard of Oz ("Hello, Yellow Brick Road", 17 March), several stated facts call for correction. The writers who actually "tweaked" the 1939 film's screenplay -...
As the literature indicates, the strength of a "superbrand" can be measured in many ways ("The name says it all", 10 March).However, although not listed in the ߣߣÊÓÆµ World Reputation...