Immigration is a positive, not a negative
The academy must repel UKIP’s charges, argues Christopher Phelps
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Ghana’s higher education sector seeks coherent national policies
Conference hears of funding problems, graduate unemployment and mission creep
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Principal/agent concern
Michael Shattock rightly draws attention to the parallels in the governance failures at HBOS and London Metropolitan University (“The best board I ever sat on”, 30 May). He is also right to point to...
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Academics’ bin diving 'caused by zero-hours contracts'
Scholars go hungry as a result of casualisation, congress hears
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The week in higher education - 6 June 2013
Leeds Metropolitan University endured a hostile reception after revealing plans to change its name. After deciding that it has “outgrown” its Met tag, the university’s options for new names are Leeds...
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Split system on public-private lines, says University Alliance
Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues
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Students still unsure what constitutes cheating
Europe-wide survey shows students don’t understand plagiarism
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Title adaptation
Simon Underdown notes in his enthusiastic review of Peter J. Bowler’s Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin (Books, 9 May) the author’s conclusion that without Charles, “the Darwin-themed...
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Lose face, use voices
I too have witnessed perverse university appointment decisions (“No one should be hired on the basis of whether their face fits”, Opinion, 23 May). At one institution in south-east England, there...
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Better than cure
Regarding “Race discrimination in academia ‘has not improved’ over past 20 years” (News, 11 April). Despite the many steps taken to promote equality and diversity in the sector, no major improvements...
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Making a hashtag of it
Times Higher Education recently encouraged responses to its cover feature “My student nemesis” (16 May) with a Twitter hashtag, #myworststudent. Having dropped some Twitter clangers in my time, I...
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Tested to destruction
Drawing on personal experience, Adrian Furnham expresses concern over what he sees as peer-review “nightmares” and the “arbitrariness of journal decision-making” (“Take the rough with the smooth”,...
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Learn from mistakes to get treatment right
“Unwanted side-effects” (30 May) is a thoughtful and balanced account of the issues arising from our research on mass drug administration programmes for neglected tropical diseases, but there is one...
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Outdoor lavatory becomes natural history laboratory
Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study
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News in brief - 6 June 2013
Times Higher Education Awards 2013Still time to shineThe closing date for entries to this year’s Times Higher Education Awards has been extended to midnight Sunday 16 June. Institutions, departments...