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Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body by Kevin Fong

David Green on the risks and rewards of medical progress

Odds and quads - 14 March 2013

This slice of college pudding, dating back to 1897, is now in the archives of Oxford Brookes University. It was originally served at the notoriously frugal Westminster College in London, a Methodist...

ɫ��ֱ�� Scholarly Web - 14 March 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Bob Welch, 1947-2013

A distinguished scholar of Irish literature who was also an acclaimed novelist, poet and playwright has died.Bob Welch was born in Cork on 25 November 1947 and graduated in English and Irish from...

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 14 March 2013

Cry 'foul' and give May the yellow card

In his critique of the sector’s approach to student visa policy (“In the twilight zone”, 21 February), Simeon Underwood suggests that the National Union of Students is “inside the [government] tent”...

Artistic assessment

In “Opus versus output” (7 March), Nicholas Till asks, can artistic practice be research? “Original composition is research” was the mantra of composers on the research assessment exercise from its...

Flaw show is not unique

As Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone point out (“Primed, but not suspect”, 28 February), the chairs of the Levelt, Noort and Drenth committees tasked with investigating the fraudulent research...

Summer kids in their ruin

You report a BBC finding that Oxbridge admission processes prefer autumn-born candidates (The week in higher education, 7 March). The next day, The Guardian published an article headed “Summer-born...

Uncle Joe said it wasn't so

Vladimir Tismaneanu, in his appreciative review of Robert Gellately’s Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, makes the startling claim that “Stalin was intent upon provoking a...

Site of condescension

The new Times Higher Education website does indeed provide a much improved “front end” to access the publication. However, surely “Letters” should be immediately adjacent to the “Leader” section in...

Grant winners - 14 March 2013

Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesClassicsAward winner: Michael SquireInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £70,000The intersection between Graeco-Roman visual and literary culturesAward...

Stick your oar in or we'll sink

By providing moral and intellectual leadership, university heads will help to protect the bottom line

Fund ‘pick-and-mix’ Mooc generation, ex-wonk advises

State should fund the individual, not the provision, Sir Michael Barber argues

Tax and rend for the Lib Dems?

Higher education could cause party fresh problems for 2015