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No room on this cushion

I am writing in response to your recent article suggesting that universities could suffer in the next spending round (“Hungry Treasury eyes universities ‘awash with cash’”, News, 7 March).As at 31...

Infinite regression

Yes, Fred Inglis’ poignant lament, rehearsing the lost moral and social solidarities of yesteryear, needed to be said (“The retention of tradition”, 14 March). Anyone who lived through those years -...

Soft-touch regulation

Your news article, “UK union fans flames as Phoenix feels heat of probation threat” (14 March), reports the difficulties that Apollo Group, owner of BPP University College, is experiencing with US...

Highly political economy

Prime Minister David Cameron’s robust defence of the inclusion of international students in the Office for National Statistics’ net migration data is highly indicative of the government’s need to...

Terms of achievement

The 30 per cent advantage in terms of chances of entry to Oxbridge that an October birthdate confers over and above a July one is more to do with the timing of the school year than whether you are a...

Motivational motive

If Graham Gibbs is right that class contact hours are less important than independent study hours (“Watched clocks and scholarly toil”, Teaching intelligence, 14 March), then higher education...

Driven potty

I have just searched the Google Play Store for a ɫ��ֱ�� app and the top suggestion was Potty Time (which includes eight new ways to celebrate your child’s potty training successes).I’m still teasing out...

Mary Evans, Matthew Feldman, June Purvis, Sara Read and Felix Rosch...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien

Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams

Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work

Academic Armageddon: An Irish Requiem for Higher Education by Mary Gallagher

Sue Norton on the difficult days ahead for Ireland’s academy as bureaucracy and consumerisation seem set to increase

Characters Of Blood: Black Heroism In The Transatlantic Imagination by Céleste-Marie Bernier

Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks

Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight

Ivor Gaber on what motivates Rupert Murdoch

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 21 March 2013

German academics boycott CHE ranking system

Scholars tired of ‘constant’ data requests. Frances Mechan Schmidt writes