Standard measures
A revealing approach to tackling the challenge of the relative standard of degrees (“Unknown qualities”, Features, 13 November) might be to require universities to publish not just syllabuses but...
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Now is the time to call pensions conference
We are dismayed to see that the University and College Union has proposed a career revalued benefits scheme for pensions that, if accepted, would considerably worsen our terms and conditions of...
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I can see clearly now!
Source: AlamySuggestions that Plymouth University is currently beset by “uncertainty” after the recent return to office of its vice-chancellor, Wendy Purcell, have been described as “maliciously...
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The week in higher education - 20 November 2014
Matt Taylor from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission must have thought he’d been dropped on a comet given the column inches he commanded last week. In just days, he went from being feted as...
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Defence must not rest
With cuts looming on the horizon, the sector cannot afford to relent in pressing the case to protect the research budget
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HE in FE: truths and illusions
Degree courses at further education colleges have the potential to ‘change lives, not society’, argues scholar
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High and popular culture to meet in new postcolonial studies centre
More football, less theory, says heroin scholar at the head of new hub
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Campus close-up: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
A London club’s Middlesex University-accredited two-year degrees promise a pitch-perfect environment to study football
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Canada and the ‘war on science’
Stephen Harper’s government is accused of ‘muzzling’ federal scientists at a time of concern over funding. Is it time for more academics to speak out?
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How to create a successful start-up incubator
Tips on shaping the right environment to encourage entrepreneurial skills and create links between universities and industry. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London
The pioneers who examined human sexual desire took personal risks to uncover the realities of sex, this exhibition shows. Fern Riddell writes
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Extreme: Why Some People Thrive at the Limits, by Emma Barrett and Paul Martin
Do tales of derring-do contain tips for surviving in the cubicle jungles? David Green finds out
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle, by Andreas Wagner
Tiffany Taylor on an investigation of the strategies for innovation involved in evolution
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An Intelligent Tory: Henry Worms, Lord Pirbright (1840-1903), by James Grimshaw
The Anglo-Jewish MP makes for a fascinating biographical subject, writes James Stevens Curl