Library faces China crisis
Stephen Ball is right to highlight the difficulties posed by globalised, business-like universities ("Sector is shifting to business ethos without debate, expert argues", 22 May). An interesting...
Stephen Ball is right to highlight the difficulties posed by globalised, business-like universities ("Sector is shifting to business ethos without debate, expert argues", 22 May). An interesting...
Your article on the misconceptions of one-year versus two-year MA courses in the UK is misfocused ("Misperception of masters could hit UK recruitment", 22 May).The problem is the perceived role of...
I could not agree more with letters last week that called for Lancaster University to keep a sense of proportion in dealing with the case of an academic who wrote a letter to a student's mother -...
Adrian Buckley's suggestion for a new research assessment metric based on citations in ߣߣÊÓÆµ is indeed innovative (Letters, 22 May). However, the following more modest proposal has...
Academics who are alarmed by the suggestion that their index-linked final-salary pensions might be unsustainable ("Gold standard reassessed", 15 May) can do something useful to protect their own...

The Principle of Sound Learning is that the noise of vulgar fame should never trouble the cloistered calm of academic existence," wrote F. M. Cornford a century ago. "Hence, learning is called sound...
What did the stand-up tell academics who want to give better lectures? It's no laughing matter - it's about performing in the moment, Tariq Tahir hears
Many researchers believe a 'gut instinct' can be as powerful a tool as logic and academics should acknowledge its role in their work. Matthew Reisz reports

Rising stars - The young academics tipped to go places
The prospect of another research assessment exercise will lead only to discord, says Gloria Monday

Looking over the work produced by her masters students, Tara Brabazon is struck by their creativity, inspired by their enthusiasm and determination and humbled to see teaching help to change lives

Radhakrishnan Nayar on 'de-Westernisation'
Truth and Ontology by Trenton Merricks, professor of philosophy, University of Virginia. Clarendon Press, £.50, ISBN 9780199205233"Throughout the book Merricks considers various propositions that...

Brian Black finds insightful commentary on Zen's opposing voices, but no road map to a middle way
Human evolution and astrophysics share more than might be obvious at first glance - both address the "big" questions about existence, both fascinate the non-specialist while appearing bewilderingly...