PhD teaching quid pro quo without the quid (or goes)
UEL students' open letter signals wider problems with provision. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Pendulum stops as St Mary's drops hypnosis
The UK's only undergraduate degree course in hypnosis has been scrapped after an investigation by regulators revealed serious problems with teaching and assessment.St Mary's University College...
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Wired campus key to student recruitment
Universities are under increasing pressure to offer incoming students access to state-of-the-art technology because of the increased fees they are being asked to pay, according to a report published...
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Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy
Experts predict 'unsustainable' USS fund will close within 10 years. Jack Grove reports
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Institution denies taking tougher line on academics who 'under-perform'
Union claims Birmingham introduced new regime without consultation. Paul Jump writes
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Median holds the message
Aspiring journalists must learn to ask probing questions of digital data as well as people, recommends Louise Byrne
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The 'gold standard' of Grayling is not struck from an Oxbridge mint
New College of the Humanities' pedagogic model has only a passing resemblance to the ancient universities' teaching, argues Julia Horn
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'He cites me, hard, forcing my footnotes apart...'
The Fifty Shades phenomenon has spawned academic debate, scholarly parodies and now an erotic trilogy starring a dark, brooding, sensual...lecturer. Matthew Reisz reveals all
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'Spend, spend, spend' - marketing head's advice
"Someone is waking up and smelling the coffee!" That was the reaction of our Head of Marketing, Graham Flair, to the forecast by Tim McIntyre-Bhatty, deputy vice-chancellor of Bournemouth University...
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Ruth Etchells, 1931-2012
Ruth Etchells was born in London on April 1931 and adopted, at the age of 2, by a Congregationalist minister and his wife, who took her to live in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. She was educated at...
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Love it when planning comes together
The coalition government's latest wave of planning reforms has been accompanied by a sentiment, cleared by No 10, to "get the planners off our backs". Such rhetoric threatens to cause potential...
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Gonzo gratitude (1 of 2)
Very occasionally, I receive nice emails from people I have never met but who have read my stuff. This morning I got one that began thus: "Dear Professor Hackley, I have just submitted an [Economic...
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Gonzo gratitude (2 of 2)
Helen Sword makes a good point about the clarity and readability of academic prose. Of course, not all academic concepts and research results lend themselves to being easily grasped and understood,...
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Do compare like with like
Although Felipe Fernández-Armesto writes authoritatively on the merits of high tuition fees in relationship to a positive student experience ("Reassuringly expensive", 30 August), he fails to...
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Radical regimen
The US is reframing its public health training so that it addresses the needs of a modern population ("US changes dose to treat public health malaise", 6 September). In the UK, the public health...