Heif concentration provokes mission group ire
The decision to limit an additional £6 million of Higher Education Innovation Fund cash to just 12 institutions has angered some sector leaders.Plans were announced on 13 September to allocate the...
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Caste into darkness? Academy losing soul in 'Faustian bargain'
Metrics maketh the sector more stratified, NYU leader warns. Elizabeth Gibney reports from Paris
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Answer that, would you? Alarm sounds for the exam ringers
European conference warned of the growing threat posed by bogus students. Jack Grove reports
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Young doctors need guidance on career paths inside and outside campus
Graduate schools should publish data about their former students' careers to inform doctoral candidates about their job prospects.
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At the top, too short a season
Internationalisation stymied by the Continent's fixed-term leadership. Jack Grove reports
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Have you seen our vice-chancellor?
Following the discovery from a recent staff survey that 35 per cent of Poppleton academics had never seen our current vice-chancellor, we learn of a new university initiative to increase his...
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Janet Altman, 1955-2012
A leading conference interpreter who went on to play a crucial role in the training of new generations of interpreters has died.Janet Altman was born in Manchester on 31 March 1955 and then moved to...
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Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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Peer and present dangers (1 of 3)
I agree entirely with Stephen Mumford's timely critique of the peer-review process for academic journals and the system's lack of transparency ("Peer pressure", Opinion, 13 September).I have been...
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Peer and present dangers (2 of 3)
"Peer pressure" struck a chord with me. While colleagues in the academy increasingly find themselves with diverse and complex workloads to manage, professionalism and respect for peers should...
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Peer and present dangers (3 of 3)
Editors and publishers do take steps to drop reviewers who are abusive, inaccurate or cursory in their work. However, we are often faced with the fact that almost any review is better than nothing....
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Ends and meanings (1 of 2)
The trouble with Martin Willis' admirable feature "Curiosity knows no bounds" (13 September) is that there is a flaw at the heart of his argument. Yes, the sciences and humanities share a motivation...
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Ends and meanings (2 of 2)
Martin Willis' defence of the humanities in the face of the current political bias towards the sciences was eloquent, impassioned and timely. I was puzzled, though, by his stated regret that the...
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Bang for our bucks
Roger Brown ("Inequality? You ain't seen nothing yet", Letters, 30 August) identifies Edge Hill University as the worst funded higher education institution in the UK. There are specific reasons for...
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Ill-judged final word
Helen Sword's piece on academics writing for a wider audience ("Narrative trust", 6 September) omitted to mention some of the pitfalls.For example, the more carefully written a piece is, the more...