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If the obituary for Barbara Scholz (7 July) had too much personal detail quoted from her husband, I should perhaps blame myself: her importance to me was enormous, and when asked about her I probably...
If the obituary for Barbara Scholz (7 July) had too much personal detail quoted from her husband, I should perhaps blame myself: her importance to me was enormous, and when asked about her I probably...
I have some sympathy with David Richards' concern about the growth in temporary teaching fellowships (Letters, 30 June).However, I am mystified by his assumption that only those who take up...
I read with real interest the fight that Liz Schafer and her colleagues went through to obtain parity in salaries with their male colleagues at Royal Holloway, University of London ("There's no good...
Stephen Mumford is entirely right about sport as an intellectual pursuit ("The aesthetically pleasing game," 7 July). As a lifelong Spurs fan and a lifelong socialist, I have become used to the...
The problem with watching football as a purist, which Mumford recommends, is that much English football is mediocre. Watching as a partisan, I get the pleasure, albeit far too rarely, of watching...
To me, the partisan element of football is in itself part of the game's beauty, part of its aesthetics. The swaying Kop of the 1970s, the old Roker Roar, the colour and majesty of the Nou Camp or the...
Plans to merge Welsh universities to cut the total number of institutions from 10 to six have been backed by the education minister Leighton Andrews.

By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
Higher education staff have been given a “final offer” of a £150 pay rise for the next academic year, provoking an angry reaction from the sector’s unions.

Tuition fees at English universities will average £8,393 in 2012, the Office for Fair Access confirmed today, significantly higher than the government’s estimate.
Universities and colleges in Wales are to charge average annual tuition fees of £8,800 after the funding council rubber stamped their plans to improve access.

A subject association has called for an independent inquiry into the suspension of a University of Nottingham academic for criticising the university’s role in the arrest of an administrator and a...
Lord Sainsbury will be part of a new task force launched to investigate ways to turn more university research into viable businesses. Over the next 12 months the new task force, set up by the Council...
A group of academics and students has launched a drive for an “alternative” higher education White Paper in response to what they describe as the “sweeping, ill-considered reforms” set out in the...
Academics at the University of Leeds have passed a motion of no confidence in David Willetts.