'Serious' students call time on binge drinking
The pressure to get drunk at university is one of students' major worries, a survey has found.One fifth of students polled by the market research firm YouthSight listed the pressure to drink as one...
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Bad things come to those who wait
Hospitality staff may see salary drop as Sheffield subsidiary pursues profits. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Financial supportDon't pay off loans, buy a houseParents who help fund their children's degree rather than encouraging use of the student loan could be missing an opportunity to give other, more...
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The real bottom line
Transnational initiatives pay dividends far greater than a share of the overseas student market, Paul Greatrix insists
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Where a golden state once gleamed, sterling opportunities shine
Credit: llustration by James FryerUK scholars once envied their US peers' lifestyle, recalls Paul Curran, but a drop in pay now has Americans biting at British offersIn the 1980s, like many other UK...
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Recalibrate with care
Reform of the high-stakes A level is an inherently risky business, says Mary Curnock Cook, who sees the value in a number-based scale
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To a professor are you a professor?
"We do currently have more professors than you could shake a stick at," admitted Louise Bimpson, our Corporate Director of HR, when confronted with news of the ever-growing number of professors in UK...
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None so deaf as those who will not hear
So we should define our roles as providers of policy briefs and focus on what works, while addressing underlying values and political questions about what is desirable - the questions that preoccupy...
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Narrow vision
Next year, the research excellence framework will assess the quality of research at higher education institutions across the UK. British-based academics will select their "best" recent outputs for...
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Don't retrench, rejuvenate
Concerns about UK doctoral education ("Local difficulties: are UK PhDs really second-rate?", News, 12 July) are part of a wider and sustained wave of international criticism. The underlying message...
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Precise definitions
Jennifer Jenkins ("Raising the 'spectras'", Letters, 26 July), in reply to Michael Hollas' complaint about incorrect English ("Singularly annoying", Letters, 19 July), asks to what historical point...
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Gold value trumps costs
The government's plan to make publicly funded scientific research available for free is a major tipping point in academia ("Government and funders move to make Finch a reality", www....
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Stings and sweetness
As a beekeeping academic for years, I appreciated Ruth Farwell's "Hive talking" (Off-piste, 26 July). Students can be like bees: the more you wave them away, the more they come back for more. However...
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Stick to the standards
Simeon Underwood is right ("Still stuck on the audit wheel, and we could do with a credence revival", Opinions, 19 July). In the new world of consumerism that now characterises English higher...
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Vague gestures
Jonathan Steinberg ("Cult of personalities", 19 July) claims that the "collapse of the Soviet Union brought down the whole edifice of social science". This is more puzzling than claiming that...