Painful reflection
Media self-hatred is fuelling the attacks on media studies, says Sally Feldman

Media self-hatred is fuelling the attacks on media studies, says Sally Feldman

Financial aid for individuals during their studies is crucial, argues Liam Burns, but the incoherent NSP will do more harm than good

Measuring up - Judging scholarship as the US enters a post-tenure age

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Institutions need secure positions and income to plan and do good work; the same is true of individual scholars

This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
Howard Davies' astute comments on the REF's corrosive effects on the quality of academic writing remind me of Flannery O'Connor's observation: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities...
Regarding "Russell Group 'a more natural fit' " (15 March). There is surely only one word for the universities that have left the 1994 Group: splitters.Keith Flett, London

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced investment worth £100 million for universities in a bid to boost private-sector investment in research.
Almost one-quarter of students in the UK receive less lecture time than they thought they would get before they started university, a new report has revealed.
Removing international students from official immigration figures would reduce government statistics to “nonsense”, the head of a migration pressure group has claimed.

King’s College London has received the largest donation from an individual in its history - a £20 million gift for its School of Law.
The University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London, could share lecturers as part of a new programme of research and outreach collaboration.

Arab uprisings push US students from Egypt to Lebanon

Students at Cardiff Metropolitan University have voted against plans to merge the institution with the University of Wales, Newport and the University of Glamorgan.