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Off Piste - The dying of the guiding light
Peter Hill recalls his time as a lighthouse keeper, a profession since snuffed out by technology. He misses the arduous hours, grand meals, avian migrants and tall tales in the coal fire's glow
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The week in higher education
The number of university applicants has increased by 2.5 per cent on last year, according to figures published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A total of 344,064 people had...
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From where I sit - Diplomatic bag's pedagogic pearls
Those who teach international relations are rarely short of interesting material from the "real world" to illustrate key points about theory and practice, but the release of masses of classified...
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The Pick - Making the right gesture
Adult puppetry to an aerial exploration of the female condition
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Kevin Boyle, 1943-2010
An academic who stood at the centre of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland has died.Kevin Boyle, emeritus professor of international human rights law at the University of Essex, was a key...
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Help us reclaim and reunite our union
The University and College Union's national executive committee (NEC) is indeed split ("UCU in turmoil as its Left wing looks to make bid for control", 6 January), but the issue is more than just...
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Private problems
It is astonishing how often otherwise well-informed commentators stumble over parallels between US and UK higher education.In "A chance to break free of administrative and regulatory tyranny" (6...
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Gender is off the agenda
While science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects have been ring-fenced and are being protected by the coalition government, it is clear that gender equality in STEM subjects does not...
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Rankings blind spots
Charles Harvey and his colleagues' defence of journal rankings does not withstand scrutiny (Letters, 6 January). They assert that some forms of ranking have been around for 40 years. But the...
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Not-so-happy days ahead
The government is apparently keen to include psychology in developing and administering policy. It will be interesting to see how the government fares on its political interpretation of "happiness"....
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Nurture reason and respect
The feature "Contravene or intervene" (6 January) is a thoughtful, nuanced and vital contribution to efforts to sustain university communities that vigorously support free speech and simultaneously...
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Programmed to think
Logic, grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, music, geometry and astronomy ("It's the breadth that matters", 23 December)? The strength of these subjects is surely that they do not tell us how the world...
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Proof of life
At last a real stance on a real issue of academic freedom ("Scholars chip in with a defence of freedom", 6 January). Perhaps there is life remaining in higher education as demonstrated now by...
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Top 20 Journals in History
Top 20 Journals in HistoryData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-April 2010Â Journal Total cites in 2009 Impact factor 5-year impact factor 1American...