12 January 2012
How engaging - Wooing alumni with the promise of lifelong relationships

How engaging - Wooing alumni with the promise of lifelong relationships

Athene Donald warns referees about the unintended and potentially career-damaging effects of using certain words to describe women

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Universities have to support alumni with their careers if they wish to see graduates open their wallets in support of them
Marketing implores us to be "Proud to be London Met" - but now our vice-chancellor says that up to 50 per cent of our support services staff are "Not allowed to be London Met".We were staggered by...
Miles Hewstone seems to think that the purpose of the research excellence framework is to produce a UK academic league table, whereas in fact it is an exercise in funding allocation and therefore...
Excluding Greece from an assessment of the European Union economy, Heurelho Gomes from an evaluation of Tottenham Hotspur or poor performing companies from a trust portfolio appraisal is...
Much is made of a possible analogy between the case of Jules Hoffmann and Bruno Lemaitre and that of Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz ("Did Hoffmann take the Nobel for the team?", 22/29 December)....
On 4 January, David Willetts "invited proposals for new types of university with a focus on science and technology and on postgraduates".This plan to allow what seem to be free-standing research...
I was reading your article on the University of Wales and its validation activities ("Boom and bust", 5 January) when my eye was drawn to a reference to the British Accreditation Council. I'd like to...
Even though our economy is a small fraction of that of the US, the budgets of the National Science Foundation and Research Councils UK were more or less equal ($6 billion and £3 billion) as little as...
Richard Partington is right ("Unregulated KIS data overload will baffle, not enlighten, students", 22/29 December). Of the many points he makes about Key Information Sets, there's an enduring...
Did readers see Universities Superannuation Scheme investment staff kissing Santa Claus? Their stockings were stuffed with bonuses (averaging £36,000) again this year. Clearly Santa hasn't heard of...
A pay-day loans company has been accused of preying on vulnerable students after advertising itself as an alternative to government-backed student loans.
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed by a car bomb in the capital Tehran.