Erudition needed for in-out vote
In the debate about Scottish independence, university leaders have been notably reticent in stating their position
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An uncertain future for Scottish research
Scotland’s academics should be concerned about the impact of a ‘yes’ vote, says Jill Stephenson
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What might independence mean for Scotland's universities?
Whatever the result of the referendum, the impact on Scottish higher education will be considerable. David Matthews talks to advocates for both sides
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Grant winners - 12 June 2014
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilAward winner: Andrew McRaeInstitution: University of ExeterValue: £384,725A project looking at Michael Drayton’s 15,000-line topographical poem from the 17th...
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World in brief - 12 June 2014
United StatesNo guns on campus, say leadersUniversity leaders in the US overwhelmingly oppose the idea of allowing concealed firearms on campus, according to a survey of more than 400 college...
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News in brief - 12 June 2014
Disabled Students’ AllowanceBlunkett joins anti-cuts protestFormer home secretary David Blunkett has tabled an early day motion in Parliament to raise concerns over changes to the Disabled Students’...
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Hosts’ hiccups
I imagine that all scholars have stories of talks from hell to match Tim Birkhead’s (“Lost for words”, Features, 29 May).An Italian university “could not” pay for flights up front, so I paid. On my...
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Natural advantages
Graham Gibbs argues for the validity of students’ instructional evaluations of their professors as measures of teaching quality “You don’t have to guess at who’s doing well”, Teaching intelligence, 5...
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Digesting derecognition
Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor at the University of Reading, asserts that the decision to derecognise Unite and Unison and establish a staff forum was taken to address “a serious democratic deficit...
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Open access analysis
G. R. Evans raises some important questions in her letter about open access books (Letters, 29 May). Happily, the survey that she mentions is just one small element of OAPEN-UK, a five-year research...
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Musical chairs
In her response to Craig Brandist’s analysis of the organisation of many higher education institutions, Liz Morrish has come up with a splendid idea – three-yearly rotations of departmental heads in...
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Wedded to the past
Education secretary Michael Gove read English at the University of Oxford from 1985 to 1988, exactly the moment when the student pressure group Oxford English Limited (OEL) was campaigning to open...
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UCU tactics
We, the undersigned members of the 2013-14 University and College Union Higher Education Committee, write in response to the article “UCU militants press for maximum strike force” (News, 5 June)....
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Staff at the mercy of satisfaction scores
As a University of Surrey graduate – and later a professor, member of council and senate, and chair of the academic assembly there – could I say how deeply moved I am to know that it is leading the...
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