Students and others need to think over skills
Re the feature “Fuzzy logic” (3 August) and the debate about whether critical thinking skills give graduates an edge in the jobs market. Lost in this is the question of when and why universities...
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Market pay piffle
In defending vice-chancellors’ high salaries (“Are vice-chancellors in the UK overpaid – all things considered?”, Opinions, 3 August), Len Shackleton brings out the tired old argument, also used in...
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Moral hazards
Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds (Letters, 3 August) makes a useful suggestion for some “calibration” across universities for what it actually means to meet Higher Education Academy standards. The...
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Estimates may vary
The article “UK university pension scheme deficit widens to £12.6 billion” is misleading. The Universities Superannuation Scheme is not in deficit in the ordinary meaning of the word. It is very cash...
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Stalin the art lover
It was fascinating to see the article “Is ‘teaching intensity’ a good measure of student learning?” (News, 3 August) illustrated with a rare photograph of V. I. Lenin, cheroot in hand, pointing out...
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Australian 'sea bug attack' scientists: getting our facts right (and why it matters)
Joanne Taylor and Genefor Walker-Smith on the importance of scholarly rigour – even when the media want answers fast
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Sabotaged NSS results are an 'own-goal' for UK higher education
The success of the student boycott of the National Student Survey is not necessarily a success for students, writes Andrew McRae
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How to teach students to think beyond their subject
The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective
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The hangover: academic bad behaviour bites back in class
Study finds that students who witness lecturers misbehaving are more likely to display incivility in lectures or seminars
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National Student Survey 2017: campuses omitted after NUS boycott
Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions
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Any representation is too much for some Mary Beard critics
Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom
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Balancing the books: keeping enterprise going in the age of Brexit
Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal
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Secrecy and isolation: the formula for innovative science?
Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation