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Helen Small discusses The Value of the Humanities

New book aims to promote calm in place of ‘grievance’

Ministry of Information gets the historical treatment

Template for Orwell’s nightmare the subject of major AHRC-backed study

Odds and quads - 26 September 2013

This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of “certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 26 September 2013

Quebec’s proposed ban on faith symbols provokes unease on campus

Academics and students register opposition to outlawing of overt displays of religious affiliation

In deserted fields, danger

A career in research is not attractive to Germans, suggests a study conducted by the country’s Federal Statistical Office. A large proportion of graduates do not continue with research once they get...

Grant winners - 26 September 2013

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Marco BeatoInstitution: University College LondonValue: £196,355The tuning of motor circuits by recurrent excitation and inhibitionAward...

Memes testing

In his enthusiastic review of Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith by Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Sonya Sharma and Rob Warner (Books, 12 September), Gerald J....

Measuring boom and bust

“Failure analysis” raises interesting points, but is rather simplistic in considering what failure is (From where I sit, 5 September). In the case of a bridge collapsing it is quite clear, but only...

Flat rate

You report, in a mix of outrage and consternation, that about “£2,000 went on 880 bottles of sparkling wine” at the recent farewell party for the provost of University College London (The week in...

Gravity’s rainbow

I may have found a flaw in Chibuihem Amalaha’s scholarly work on the use of physical laws to condemn gay marriage (The week in higher education, 19 September).While the work of Ampère, Coulomb and...

Spectres of exclusion

Satire is always very refreshing, but snobbery, class condescension and sexism dressed up as satire? (“Reach out and touch”, The Poppletonian, 19 September.)Clearly the spectre behind Laurie Taylor’s...

Steps in overseas direction

When the government originally consulted stakeholders, including universities and public authorities, on the removal of the post-study work route for international students, just 6 per cent of...

Mortality count

The suggestion that I “fabricated” a death-roll for Dresden is untrue (review of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy, Books, 19 September). In my book The Destruction of Dresden (1963...

Hey, teacher, leave those trainers alone

I agree with Anthony Seldon (“Right to reply”, Opinion, 19 September): university students should receive high-quality teaching and effective student feedback should inform staff appraisals. However...