'Mad moment' - Chemistry Don
"I got carried away. It could have happened to anyone. I had a moment of madness." Just a sample of the remarks screamed at onlookers by Dr D.W. Blodgett of our Department of Chemistry as he was...
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A tale of two systems
US attacks on the NHS also raise issues about the academy, says Kevin Fong
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Confucius says he who waits contemplates
Jon F. Baldwin finds the slow-moving Saturday night queue at his local Chinese takeaway sometimes provides the only opportunity for self-reflection in an otherwise frantic week
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Leader: Just who are you here for?
Education suffers because teaching gets no respect. That must change, and academics can start with themselves
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From where I sit: Losing the power of concentration
There's been a kerfuffle in ߣߣÊÓƵ lately over literacy levels, as old statistics are trotted out yet again to make sensationalist headlines.This time it was the ߣߣÊÓƵn Industry Group, which...
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Michael Rose, 1937-2009
Michael Rose, a leading industrial sociologist, has died.He was born in Bray, Berkshire on 24 November 1937 and grew up by the River Thames - where his family owned a well-known boat-building...
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'Quality' controls must be eliminated
I agree that there are huge problems with lack of autonomy in British universities ("Winning the war of independence", 3 September), but it is not just in the US where things are better - there is...
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A dangerous precedent
We, the undersigned, are psychologists alarmed by the treatment of our colleagues at the University of Surrey.As part of the university's plan to reduce its financial deficit, the department of...
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Two meanings of teaching 1
Jo Pickering's letter (3 September) criticising Joao Magueijo's article on the teacher training of university lecturers reveals certain assumptions underlying the whole project. In particular, she...
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Two meanings of teaching 2
Amid the ping-pong of debate ("Those who can, get a PhD; those who can't, simply teach anyway", August), has the issue of advancing knowledge by working at a high level of academic discipline in one'...
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Poisoned chalice
The search for robust and accessible means of comparing the quality of different courses and institutions is becoming higher education's equivalent of the search for the Holy Grail ("Pressure grows...
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Training days
Having worked in the field many years ago, I enjoyed Adrian Furnham's typology of trainers ("Prepare to meet your trainer", August).My first training job involved working for a training manager in...
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Virtual barriers will crumble
Your article about the impending decline in the use of virtual-world technologies may be an accurate reflection of the "hype cycle", but it could be misleading if used to interpret the long-term...
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Purls of wisdom
Thank you for "Stitches through time" ( August). The image of knitting as "integral" to Sara Schley's life rang very true. But more than this biographical lesson in "connections", knitting is also an...