Doctor no more: Thai official finally loses title
A senior government official in Thailand has finally had his doctorate rescinded more than two years after a university investigation concluded that 80 per cent of his thesis on organic asparagus...
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Promotion of graduate premium is tantamount to 'mis-selling'
Elusive notion will mislead students and foul loan forecasts, experts hear. John Morgan writes
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News in brief
InternationalisationOverseas underwritingThe UK's universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support British universities' overseas expansion while suggesting that the...
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Rock-solid way to sweeten proposal
Session at ESRC festival to reveal secrets of a successful grant application. Paul Jump reports
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Loughborough denies sleep unit is trapped in nightmare scenario
But professor claims Sleep Research Centre has been sidelined by REF strategy. Paul Jump reports
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Cure capitalism to make markets by the people, for the people
Academy called upon to help correct increasingly corrupt economic system. Matthew Reisz reports
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Greater value than money
Innovation oughtn't mean just profit-making technology - there is a subtler, social sort, explains Nick Petford
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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'Breakaway professor' shock
One of our leading professors has admitted that he might be leaving his present post at our university to set up his own private college.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), Professor Gordon...
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In the grand sweepstakes, Cambridge takes top spot
Oxford loses out in THE Table of Tables as Soas makes way for new blood. Jack Grove reports
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Edwin Kerr, 1926-2012
A man who played a central role in the development of polytechnics and colleges into the thriving institutions that became post-1992 universities has died.Edwin Kerr was born on 1 July 1926 and...
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'Inconvenient truths' of open-access plans (1 of 2)
The Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings led by Dame Janet Finch concludes that there should be a "clear policy direction" favouring open access. This has been welcomed by...
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'Inconvenient truths' of open-access plans (2 of 2)
The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes the Finch report's extensive acknowledgement that learned societies contribute significantly to developing scholarly endeavour and public engagement. They are...
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Pensions, not politics
As a delegate to the University and College Union congress from the branch that moved the "work-to-contract" motion for staff in the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I would like to address some...
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Pound-for-pound power
You might have thought that someone with Michael Farthing's surname would be sensitive to the point that size is not a determinant of quality ("Too lightweight for the title", Opinion, 21 June). The...