Let students join you in the lab
Why are undergraduates still kept at arm’s length from the world of research? asks Stuart Hampton-Reeves
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Unions chide Edinburgh Napier over zero-hours job adverts
Criticism follows latest vacancies for controversial contracts
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Q&A with Harry Patterson, alias Jack Higgins
We speak to the writer of The Eagle Has Landed and the recipient of an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of London International Programmes
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29 May 2014
Another planet - London: uniquely attractive, uniquely challenging
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News in brief - 29 May 2014
IoE/UCL mergerAll done bar the due diligence?A merger of the Institute of Education and University College London is set to be completed by December after the institutions’ governing councils gave...
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Grant winners - 29 May 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Brian ShielsInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £428,822Molecular epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne disease...
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Adjust your expectations
I graduated in philosophy from a Russell Group university in 2012, and although I now have a good job (with that university) I still have the half-joking jibes about the practical use of my degree...
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No pension surprises
“Is it the end for final salary pensions?” your headline asks (News, 22 May). The end has been on the cards for at least 10 years, and several people tried to warn colleagues that this would happen...
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Forum for the future
I am not “anti-trade union”, as Unison claims (“HR head: union shutout ignited staff enthusiasm”, News, 22 May), I am pro-representation for all employees.First, the University of Reading did not...
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Questions over open books
If open access is to be extended to books, two questions need to be put straight away. How are authors and publishers to position the boundary between books for whose publication the author must in...
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Essential training
The Mid Staffordshire scandal does not “loom over nursing education”, it looms over society (“The trials of service”, Features, 15 May) and to suggest otherwise blames people for their actions rather...
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Uncrackable codes
The phenomenon that the anonymous senior university manager is describing when he refers to worries about the appointment of ambitious outsiders (“Rise of the replicants: management clones and shades...
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Who’s the boss in the lecture hall?
Students are not, nor should they ever be considered, the employer of an instructor (“Repetitive strain”, Features, 15 May). That is the mentality of “for-profit” schools that are a shell of their...
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The week in higher education - 29 May 2014
Students at the University of Brighton are the most likely to score between the sheets, according to higher education’s most salacious – and least reliable – league table. Brighton undergraduates had...