We'll put best foot forward - and boot in if we have to
University Alliance's new leader talks funding policy and standing firm. John Morgan reports
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It's 'official': dissent sacrificed to conformity
British universities are drifting towards a "dangerous state of affairs" where they are governed by "official knowledge" and "official teaching".
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Head of Cardiff Met associate college and spouse received £1m dividend
The chief executive of the London School of Commerce (LSC), an associate college of Cardiff Metropolitan University, and his wife received a dividend of £1 million in 2010, company accounts show.
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News in brief
ScotlandSalmond recipe for supportA package of extra financial support for Scottish students has been unveiled by the Holyrood government. As part of the measures, students with a family income of...
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Rivals and collaborators
To work best, the market in outreach work needs a balance of competition and cooperation, says Graeme Atherton
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Soldiers in the fight for the open society need reinforcements
Academics worldwide face economic and political attacks that restrict their freedom to challenge convention, says Jo Glanville
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Home thoughts from abroad
Statistics compiled by Poppleton University's Centre for Inconsequential Findings That Are Likely To Get In The Newspapers show that 82 per cent of the UK's academics are currently taking statutory...
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London Met banned from enrolling overseas students
University is first ever to lose its licence to sponsor non-EU students. Jack Grove writes
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Wendy Surridge, 1960-2012
A "fun-loving" university administrator who spearheaded the expansion of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has died.Wendy Surridge was born in Beckenham, Kent on 28 July 1960...
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Inequality? You ain't seen nothing yet
Before we get too smug about the possibilities of hordes of discontented US academics flocking to these shores to experience the delights of the research excellence framework, the National Student...
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Faster, higher, stronger
Data released by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills earlier this month reveal that just 18 per cent of state school pupils who had been eligible for free school meals at the age of 15...
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Brickbats don't stack up
As a dynamic service, the Bodleian Libraries is indeed changing, but the picture painted by G.R. Evans ("Shelf harm", Letters, 23 August) is not what it seems.The relocation of the History Faculty...
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Ethical inside job
Making businesses more ethical must begin with the business schools ("Learning to do the right thing - and swear to it", News, 2 August). However, making students take an "MBA Oath" is not the answer...
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Question time is overdue
It is a matter of common knowledge that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has set up a panel to advise it on the future of special factor funding for the institutes of the University...
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Escalating scale
I hope that the escalators in the Sainsbury's in Darlington, where one is repeatedly urged to face the direction of travel (Letters, 23 August), ascend eastwards, or else the speed of the Earth's...