Variety: the spice of life sciences
Pat Monaghan and Tim Birkhead call for variation to be the theme once more in university biology
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Cardiff baker’s dozen: for expiry date, check the REF
University defends short-term contracts as source criticises ‘game-playing’
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(Almost) all donations gratefully received
Universities need clear protocols for accepting money - particularly from outside the UK, argues Chris Higgins
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Leveson’s lessons for the academy
The inquiry’s recommendations echo a similar arrangement in higher education, Rob Behrens says
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Watch the watch lists says UK scholar as US ban lifted
After 12 months barred from travel to US, Nasir Warfa can reopen his diary
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Big, bold and highly accessible
What do Arizona State University, the University of California, Riverside and the University of Central Florida have in common? Well, for a start they are all large – Arizona State alone has more...
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McGill’s global aims undented by local difficulties
Heather Munroe-Blum outlines her institution’s ‘complex mission’
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Appointments - 27 June 2013
University for the Creative ArtsWill AlsopThe man who designed the Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône (“Le Grand Bleu”) in Marseilles and the Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library in South...
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Nick Dusic, 1978-2013
A former director of the UK’s Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) has died aged 34
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A breath of ‘fresh’ air
Christopher Bigsby loved Aberystwyth, despite the respiratory hazards
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Change holes, not pegs to widen access
I do hope that your editorial is wrong and that we will not have to endure another decade of the argument about getting more state school pupils into so-called “top” universities, as I am fed up with...
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Healthy percentage
You recently cited figures showing that about one in 10 of Bath Spa University’s professors is female (“Gender gap still yawns among professoriate”, News, 13 June). It is of the nature of these...
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Support, not statute
As a full-time academic who is a wheelchair user living with multiple sclerosis, discrimination is a fact of life. Unlike my colleagues I do not have a choice over how I get to work: public transport...
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Peacetime propaganda
On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme recently, Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker claimed that the world is retreating from violence and cruelty. According to the good professor, it seems we...
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Free and easy to find
I can confirm for Richard Hoyle that the journal Theatre Notebook is run on such “old-fashioned lines that the editors give their time for nothing”, or at least nothing pecuniary (“Pipe-dream...