Jacqueline Kirk, 1968-2008
Colleagues have paid tribute to an academic killed in an ambush in Afghanistan.Jackie Kirk, a 40-year-old adjunct professor of education at McGill University in Canada and a former research fellow at...
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Tribunal highlights poor governance
The case of Paul Buckland ("Tribunal backs professor's stand", 21 August) has some profound implications for the management of universities. I believe that halting and reversing the slide in the...
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Science vital to health study
Your feature on some members of staff at the University of Central Lancashire attacking science degrees in complementary and alternative medicine ("Staff attack science degrees in alternative health...
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Seized by buzz about i and e 1
Bernard Lamb of Imperial College London says that I do not know the full version of the spelling rule i before e except after c if the vowel sound rhymes with bee (Letters, 21 August).But I notice...
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Seized by buzz about i and e 2
Bernard Lamb berates Ken Smith's partial understanding of the i before e spelling rule and extends it to the formulation i before e except after c when the sound rhymes with bee.However, there are...
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Seized by buzz about i and e 3
Ken Smith hasn't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum. He can't cry foul because I reduce to absurdity his principle by applying it to examples and fields he hadn't thought of - that's what...
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Suggesting peers helps all
The hot news about peer review ("Pick-a-peer option 'undermining review system'," 7 August) is, frankly, old hat. I've been recommending potential reviewers for my own papers for years.Editors and...
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Torturous comparisons 1
Terence Kealey's screed about the ingrained moral turpitude of the United States ("Siege mentality", 14 August) shows that the myth of American exceptionalism is not restricted to those who believe...
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Torturous comparisons 2
Tony King (Letters, 21 August) is wrong to dismiss Terence Kealey's article on American torture. It is true other Western countries have used torture, but never as official policy. Under George W....
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Reviewing the review
As I'm neither Bard nor Ovate or Druid, I've never been a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, splendid though it be ("Battle for the voice of the past", Books, 21 August).The main...
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Rooted in creativity
Anyone doubting engineering's creative nature ("Spanners in the artworks", 14 August) should consider the common roots for the words engineer and ingenious.Steve Hobbs, School of Engineering,...
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£55m for knowledge transfer
A new multimillion-pound scheme will help universities exploit their research. Matt Rooney reports on the initiative
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe Knowledge Catalyst Scheme supports partnerships between universities and non-academic partners to exploit the research base in the arts and humanities....
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Modem love
'Cyberpsychologist' Mark Griffiths studies the addicts and adepts of online dating and gambling. Melanie Newman reports
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Appointments
Mohan Munasinghe has been appointed director-general of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. He will take up the role from September. Currently vice-chair of the...