Leader: Good faith, yes, but no miracles
Universities know academies have their risks, but they join out of a sense of justice and mission. Just don't expect wonders
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Bartolomeu dos Santos 1931-2008
An acclaimed Portuguese artist who taught printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art for 35 years has died, aged 76.Bartolomeu dos Santos, known as Barto, started at the school as a student in the...
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Open access does not mean no peer review
Philip Altbach displays a startling lack of understanding of what open access means ("Hidden cost of open access", 5 June). It does not mean abandoning peer review and putting all academic work on...
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Reviewers and recompense
Steve Fuller (Letters, 5 June) misunderstands what the Research Information Network report on the costs of the scholarly communications system says about peer review. We calculate that the time spent...
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Copyright madness
As the editor of Irish Writing in the 20th Century: A Reader and someone mentioned in Alistair McCleery's feature ("Dead hands keep a closed book", 5 June), let me add a brief comment.Like James...
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Politics, politeness and PR 1
Nothing illustrates more the insidious damage being done to higher education through the colonisation of university processes by a rampant managerialism than the University of Nottingham's...
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Politics, politeness and PR 2
Given that in every encounter I have had with him, Jonathan Ray has been courteous and professional, I wonder why he might have been provoked to reply in mildly pugnacious terms to some of his...
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Research-led is the ideal
It is refreshing to read Susan Bassnett admitting that universities sometimes fall short of the research-led teaching ideal because it is expedient to do so, but it is quite another thing to argue...
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Overheads advice on Trac
Your article "FP7 largesse may bring a nasty surprise" (5 June) provided a partial and misleading picture.In Framework Programme 7, all costs will be reimbursed at a percentage of eligible costs...
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On freedom and science
Terence Kealey thinks he has solved the problem of academic freedom (Books, 29 May). It is, he confidently tells us, the freedom to hold views that result from the application of the "academic method...
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Vaulting ambition
City academies have helped raise the sights of some young people in higher education cold spots, but there remains fierce ideological and practical opposition from many academics. Hannah Fearn...
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Off the couch, back on its feet
Psychoanalysis may have little place in university psychology departments, but it is flourishing within the arts and humanities. Matthew Reisz reports on the debates - and divisions - between...
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It's all pants
As with husbands, so with students. Lower the bar, as benchmarks do, and mediocre results are guaranteed, says Tara Brabazon
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12 June 2008
Higher powered - Can universities raise standards of education in city academies?
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High IQ turns academics into atheists
Intelligence is a predictor of religious scepticism, a professor has argued. Rebecca Attwood reports