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  1. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  2. Off Piste: Racing demon

    The individual aspects of motor racing can be intellectually appreciated, but the sum of the total adds up to a pure, gut-stirring experience that's all about feeling, enthuses Sir Drummond Bone

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  4. From where I sit - Toxic result of corrosion of ethics

    The ethics of Chinese scholars have come under intense scrutiny following a recent scandal in the country.In mid-February, 80 people in the city of Guangzhou were poisoned after eating pork that...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  5. Olivia Harris, 1948-2009

    Olivia Harris, a leading anthropologist, has died.She was born on 26 August 1948, grew up in Surrey, was educated in Kent and studied Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She then switched to...

    #People

  6. Clever conceit won't protect free speech

    The group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) confuses freedom of speech with academic freedom, and thus undermines both ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May).It claims...

    #Letters

  7. Losing balance

    In your story on the student disruption of a conference advocating closer ties between universities and industry ("Protesters disrupt business-link conference", 14 May), you first reported the...

    #Letters

  8. Degrees of scrutiny

    You report the possible acquisition of BPP by the Apollo Group ("For-profit growth predicted if US giant buys UK's BPP", 14 May). If this happens, the legal responsibility for BPP's degree awards...

    #Letters

  9. Parental requiem

    Alec Ryrie seems to imply in his (absolutely appropriate) commendation of Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars ("The Canon", 7 May) that the book is "dedicated to God himself". I have no idea...

    #Letters

  10. Different wavelengths

    I am surely not alone in being puzzled by the "Top journals in computer science" (Research intelligence, 14 May). By far the strangest inclusion was the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation...

    #Letters

  11. Dole it out to poor students

    I always thought that the reason UK students pay lower fees than overseas ones is that educating British citizens helps the domestic economy, whereas foreign students take the benefits back home (...

    #Letters

  12. Don't fear open access

    Kathryn Sutherland appears to fundamentally misunderstand the goals and methods of the open-access movement ("Those who disseminate ideas must acknowledge the routes they travel", 30 April).Her...

    #Letters

  13. Glorious structures or grey?

    Adrian Furnham ("The petty meanness is bitterly recalled, but the kindness is repaid", 14 May) refers to university prospectuses showing off semi-attractive buildings and ignoring the "Stalinist...

    #Letters

  14. QMU's drama, no crisis

    Queen Margaret University is not the subject of a Quality Assurance Agency investigation ("Quality concerns take centre stage as staff quit over dramatic changes", 14 May). The validation process for...

    #Letters

  15. Not all black on numbers

    Your report "Overseas numbers plummet" (News, 30 April) and the New Zealand Herald story on which it is based are wrong to suggest that New Zealand's universities are "losing" foreign students. A few...

    #Letters