Irreligious tones? (1 of 2)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Bless us with a silent night", 8 December) has been listening to the wrong tunes.While Shepherds Watched, a paraphrase of Luke 2: 8-14, may be a little dull when sung to...
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Irreligious tones? (2 of 2)
Jorge Cham, in his cartoon Piled Higher and Deeper (24 November), displays to his credit an inkling of the Lord's Prayer, but his adaptation of it is offensive to anyone who takes Christianity...
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Minds for sports, not ethics
In discussing US universities' sports programmes and, specifically, the alleged child sexual abuse scandal and cover-up at Pennsylvania State University, the article "Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector'...
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Any route to access will do
Wes Streeting's opinion article "Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion" (8 December) wrongly accuses the Office for Fair Access of "directing" universities to divert money...
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Improved outcomes
Geoffrey Channon is quite right to warn us of the careless use of "neoliberal business-speak" such as delivery of courses (Letters, 8 December). However, he is wrong to include in that pernicious...
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Soas takes legal steps to end occupation
The School of Oriental and African Studies has begun legal proceedings to end an occupation of one of its buildings.
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Hints of Higgs boson 'set scientific world agog’
“Tantalising hints” have been discovered of the fabled Higgs boson – but the data are not yet strong enough to make any conclusive statements about its existence.
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Course to address dearth of physics teachers
Thirty higher education institutions are to offer a new teacher training programme in physics and mathematics, it has been announced.
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New retraction of paper by husband and wife research team
Another paper authored by University of Manchester professor Sylvia Bulfone-Paus has been retracted – but this one does not feature the Russian postdoctoral researchers blamed for misconduct that led...
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Queen Mary academics pass latest ‘no confidence’ vote in Willetts
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
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About-face by Oxford University Press
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Pull the ladder up: a third of graduates want fewer uni places
A survey has revealed that graduates are more likely to support increased tuition fees and a reduction in the number of university places. Thirty per cent of graduates believe that opportunities to...
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Journalism academics blame newsrooms, not classrooms, for press scandals
University journalism courses are not responsible for the industry’s ethical failings, such as the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, journalism lecturers have told the Leveson inquiry
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Open for business secretary: Cable’s message to world on visa reforms
The business secretary has attempted to send a message overseas that UK higher education is planning for “long-term growth” in international markets despite recent changes to student visa rules.Vince...
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Prizes and catapults: government unveils innovation and research strategy
The government will fund more inducement prizes to solve interdisciplinary challenges as part of its new innovation and research strategy.