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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Western universities’ desire to go abroad and multiply, in a variety of models, is not always ill-advised
Anonymous interviews explore how scholars use gossip to warn others of wrongdoers – but it may not always work
As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China
Myths about the impact of having a surname starting with a letter late in the alphabet have been debunked by a new analysis
Greater student mobility and research partnerships should emerge from an accord that forms part of presidential visit
Greta Van Susteren says universities should stop ‘billing’ students for ‘hugely expensive’ new buildings