Sexual violence on campus: time to put an end to doing nothing
From calling out sexism to empowering students, we must be far more proactive in tackling offences, argues Graham Towl
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Trump is the very definition of ‘vulgar’
The word can mean many things – most of which apply to The Donald. Shahidha Bari muses on how the terms of discourse reflect our age
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Pink Lego alone cannot engineer greater diversity
The self-deprecating headline (“Building society”, Features, 27 October) is misplaced. Notwithstanding the assertion that applications are “not increasing significantly”, the quoted figures from the...
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Is that RPI or CPI?
In defence of its offer of a 1.1 per cent inflationary pay increase, our employer rejects the retail price index as a statistically unsound measure of inflation and presses for benchmarks against...
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The last plane out
The prime minister believes that it is essential to reduce the numbers of immigrants. Whatever the cost. Already, non-European Union students know that, if admitted, they are tolerated only while...
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Fool’s gold
Gun. Foot. Fire. Only in an Olympic year could someone come up with the bizarre proposal to simplify attempts to measure the quality of university teaching into gold, silver and bronze and, at the...
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Significant others
One advantage of having a partner who is an academic (“Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic”, Features, 20 October) is that one can moan about the NSS, TEF, REF, QAA, Hefce, KIS, CSTs and...
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Overseas campuses can be both meaningful and viable
Western universities’ desire to go abroad and multiply, in a variety of models, is not always ill-advised
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Academic gossip network ‘fails to punish senior scientists’
Anonymous interviews explore how scholars use gossip to warn others of wrongdoers – but it may not always work
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New book attacks China’s gao kao ‘meritocracy’
As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China