Employers, it's Acas or action - your choice
Members of the University and College Union at 63 UK universities have voted to go on strike in defence of their pensions ("Fresh dig at Left influence in union", 3 March). They have made it quite...
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Visa folly: Cable, cut it out
In the next few days, the government is expected to announce its policy on student visas.Last week, Labour's shadow business frontbench team hosted a consultative seminar attended by representatives...
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Money goes to money
David Blunkett suggests that we are moving towards a hierarchy of universities shaped by the wealth of the students they attract ("If I were you, Mr Willetts...", 3 March). Was it not ever thus? Yes...
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Clear and precise danger (1 of 2)
The president of the British Academy, Sir Adam Roberts, does not deny that there are threats to the humanities and social sciences, but says that we need to identify them "accurately, with more...
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Clear and precise danger (2 of 2)
If Sir Adam Roberts is right (and we must all hope he is), government thinking is moving away from the Browne Review's "aggressive utilitarianism" towards a more sustainable cost-based approach to...
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REF? Change the subject
At last week's meeting of University College London's academic board, the head of the School of Life and Medical Sciences delivered an oral report introducing proposed changes to its organisational...
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High stakes
Times Higher Education's fine piece about the recent Cambridge conference The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? is inevitably selective about what was an extremely rich, diverse and wide-...
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More pride, less prejudice
Sally Feldman stands up for popular works of scholarship
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Odds and quads
This wasps' nest was once home to a large colony of common wasps (Vespula vulgaris).
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Research intelligence - The cost of concentration
The ESRC's decision to limit PhD funding to 45 pre-92 universities has triggered outrage. Paul Jump reports
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Beware of autocratic regimes bearing gifts: spotlight illuminates dark side of donations
Institutions warned to take care when accepting cash from overseas. Rebecca Attwood reports
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From where I sit - Work on facts behind the figures
We live in a world of informed choices. The bulk of students seeking a degree still opt for universities in their home countries. Their decisions are shaped by a variety of considerations, such as an...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
Newcastle/NorthumbriaStudent forum aims to aid cityTwo universities and a college have joined forces to create a new city-wide student forum. The initiative brings together Newcastle University,...
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The week in higher education
An academic faces an investigation over his decision to stage a live sex show for students involving a sex toy called a "fucksaw". John Bailey, who teaches a popular human sexuality course at...