Academics at Christmas: are you ‘holly jolly’ or bah, humbug?
Seven scholars from around the world give us their festive reflections on snakes, bad lobster and turkeys’ backsides

Seven scholars from around the world give us their festive reflections on snakes, bad lobster and turkeys’ backsides
Should outside directors sit on pay panels? The Committee of University Chairs is now apparently to publish draft guidance on university pay ( “No say on pay panel for you, revised code to tell ...

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The Committee of University Chairs is now apparently to publish draft guidance on university pay ( “No say on pay panel for you, revised code to tell leaders” , News, 14 December). That is not a new...
The immigration minister Brandon Lewis has declared “EU academics: we want you in the UK and you will not be asked to leave after Brexit” (Opinion, 7 December), however I do not believe that we are...
I am amazed that according to John Davies and Alexander J. Kent in The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Books, 7 December), Soviet agents would not have been able to read “...
You do football manager David Moyes a disservice in claiming that the chances of any honours from Manchester universities are slim ( “The week in higher education” , News, 14 December). Scousers of...

Vice-chancellors’ salaries in Australia are the highest in the anglophone world, and are attracting sharp criticism, says Gavin Moodie

An annual scrap for survival in English universities’ elite grouping could make for compelling TV viewing, suggests James Tooley

Without QR funding, the UK research base would be like a Lego set with only one type of brick, write Sarah Chaytor and Graeme Reid

Minimum compliance with publication requirements is the best recipe for job satisfaction, says Mike Marinetto