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Those colours have run

Your article about Kurdistan featured an image of the Saddam-era flag of Iraq (From where I sit, 21 November). It was replaced in 2008.Joe DochertyUniversity of Portsmouth

Flawed oral tradition

I’ve just read “Darkling we watch” (Culture, 14 November). Duncan Wu uses the phrase “he administers cunnilingus on his girlfriend”. “Administers”? Cunnilingus isn’t medication or a local authority:...

Ramsey growth model

I agree with Martin Cohen’s comment in his review of David Edmonds’ Would You Kill the Fat Man? that the author’s claim for Ludwig Wittgenstein being “the most influential philosopher in the Anglo-...

Meet and greet

The Council for College and University English endorses the call for wider debate over issues affecting the discipline (“Constructive criticism”, Letters, 21 November). We would welcome the presence...

Funding black holes

The paradox suggested by Piled Higher and Deeper (21 November), that travelling forward in time to peek at the results of your research would mean the research was never undertaken, is akin to the “...

Moral economy

Robert Colls is right that the 50th anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class deserves to be marked and celebrated (“The Making and the man”, 21...

Dog-eat-dog snarling

The hothouse rivalries and cut-throat competition that typify today’s university surely add fuel to the fire of abusive academic discourse (“Nasty, brutish and short”, 7 November).The struggle for...

Market deficit

The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by Times Higher Education in the past two weeks (“Assets, liabilities and old age tensions”, 14 November; “Equity inequities”, 21 ...

Police state actors

We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the arrest of Michael Chessum, president of the University of London Union, for allegedly organising a demonstration apparently contrary to the Public Order...

Humanities in need of wider Horizon 2020

We are deeply concerned by the plans for Horizon 2020, the European Union’s forthcoming seven-year research and innovation programme. The promises made by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, commissioner for...

Never having to say sorry

Should our university be ashamed because it occupies such a lowly rank in the current list of UK universities?That was the question our reporter Keith Ponting (30) put to Deputy Head of Brand...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 28 November 2013

‘Miss’ no hit with illustrious Queen Mary alumna

Inaccurate ‘begging letter’ incenses emeritus professor

EPSRC calls for more CDT cash

Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training

Deloitte maps space in student cribs

The number of purpose-built student bed spaces in each region of the UK in 2013-14, how much they cost on average per week and the number of full-time students in 2011-12 are shown here