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If one is looking for an apt new slogan for the academy ("The new motto for the marketplace: all for one and none for all", 15 November), R.H. Tawney's famous quote from Equality (1931), "Freedom for...
If one is looking for an apt new slogan for the academy ("The new motto for the marketplace: all for one and none for all", 15 November), R.H. Tawney's famous quote from Equality (1931), "Freedom for...
The letter commenting on university rankings and men's endowment no doubt has been reported favourably by the media in every country ("Bunch of rankers", 11 October). After all, we all want to come...
Regarding "Shiny happy periodicals" (15 November): thank God for Fred Inglis!Susan Powell, Chair of medieval texts and culture, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of...

Beware online misrepresentation, says academic mistakenly linked to tarot book. Chris Parr reports
ESRC offers grants for ambition

End ‘immoral’ barriers to access on grounds of wealth, union urges. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Is there an optimum size for research labs? Are larger labs more prone to research misconduct and harder to manage? Paul Jump investigates
Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy
Company’s education leader calls for greater focus on graduate employability. David Matthews reports

It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
• Lord Patten of Barnes, embattled chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, is under mounting pressure to quit the corporation, The Sun reported on 14 November. The...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the film-maker Karel Reisz’s death, his son, Times Higher Education staff writer Matthew Reisz, examines academics’ appraisals of his father’s work, and reflects on...
Rather than assuming bigger is better, we must trial research laboratory effectiveness before concluding which size is just right
Few stories have so dominated the news in recent years as Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We have been faced with a torrent of bad news and warnings ranging from worries about contagion within the...