Off Piste: Butt of our neuroses
The goat has symbolised lusty desires and Christ-like sacrifice for millennia, but for Helen Wilcox a stray mountain beast in her garden had a rich meaning of its own
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Leader: Where do the curious people go?
Academia long gave asylum to awkward geniuses. It is less welcoming now, and scholars and students both feel the loss
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From where I sit - Student forced to use his noodles
On my way to the faculty dining room, I bought a copy of local newspaper Xinmin Evening News from a roadside newsstand as I waited for the traffic lights to change from red to green.Then I saw one of...
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Ken Green, 1946-2009
Ken Green, professor of environmental innovation management at the University of Manchester, died on 12 February after a short illness.He was an expert on the application of technology to problems of...
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University of Oxford - Clash of ideas
Budding entrepreneurs battled it out at the University of Oxford's fifth annual Idea Idol competition. The contest, billed as part Dragons' Den and part Pop Idol, was held at the university's Said...
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Round Table invitees confused by Oxford 'link'
Critics say ORT does not make its lack of academic connection clear, writes Melanie Newman
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 1
The Higher Education Funding Council for England ignored the results of the research assessment exercise when allocating funding for 2009-10 in English universities. This is shown by the correlation...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 2
Those of us at the University of Reading are naturally wondering just how we have arrived at this funding situation. We cannot escape the fact that we are proportionally the hardest hit "research-...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 3
Your otherwise informative coverage of the grant allocations was marred by the exclusion of further education colleges from the analysis.Your table of gainers and losers, for example, should have...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 4
In your article on the financial outcome of the RAE, you ascribe the Institute of Cancer Research's 10 per cent decrease in research funding to "disappointing RAE results" ("Reversal of fortunes", 5...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 5
Your description of the relationship between institutional size and performance in the article on RAE funding was overly simplistic in its interpretation of the analyses. A statistical association...
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Oxford's happy history
We would like to thank Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for giving a fascinating talk to the Oxford University History Society. However, having hosted a number of successful speaker events this term, we were...
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Doctor how
I was interested to read the feature on professional doctorates ("Practical knowledge", 26 February). What it perhaps misses is that the range of practices across the doctoral spectrum are much wider...
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Culture change bears fruit
The isolated quotes in your feature "No apples for teachers" (19 February) are misleading. My position as an educator at the University of Manchester needs clarification and, more importantly, I made...
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No chance of a 2D deity
Few would disagree with Simon Blackburn's view that David Hume was a gifted writer, but the implied notion that he provided the last word on God's existence, anthropology or miracles is somewhat...