'No feedback' for 63% of postgrad teachers
Only about a third of postgraduates who are employed by their university as teachers feel that they receive appropriate supervision and feedback.The statistic is included in a charter produced by the...
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Pressure to publish papers blamed for reluctance to share digital data
Academics have been accused of failing to make use of new technology to improve research because they are "selfish" and bogged down in the peer review system.Speaking at a British Library debate,...
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Sit-in over cuts at London Met
Students object to 'heavy-handed' security guards brought in to quell protest, writes John Morgan
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Unsound caricature
The critics are wrong, argues Rick Rylance; the AHRC is funding research into the 'Big Society', not promoting it
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Here be treasure, but sector unprepared for private raiding parties
The for-profits are coming, warns Matt Robb, and universities must prepare themselves for the rigours of competition before it's too late
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The platinum standard
Academy take note: the International Baccalaureate offers the best preparation for higher study, argue John Oakes and Anthony Seldon
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Other-worldly wise
Science fiction is edging into the mainstream. Is it because life is becoming more like the subcultural visions of the future? asks Roger Luckhurst
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Diary
Southampton Bully BoyMajor Oscar Hadley is flown to the front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled "Bully Boy" unit of the British Army. Yet when young squaddie Eddie...
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The Pick - The Damnation of Faust
The Damnation of FaustEnglish National Opera, London, until 7 JuneIn 2006-07, the site-specific theatre company Punchdrunk put on a thrilling adaptation of Goethe's Faust in a disused London...
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Hubble bubble
In a recently issued five-star, top-priority email, our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, has addressed what she describes as the "urgent issue of hubs".She points out that...
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Leader: Born again in West London
As it rebrands and reshapes, Thames Valley, long a byword for failure, might just be on course to outwit more august names
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Research intelligence - Mighty oaks and little acorns
Curtailing research freedom cuts the odds of producing great work, leading scientist argues. Paul Jump reports
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Off Piste: Truths, lies and Gallic shrugs
Martin Cohen, a long-term resident of Normandy, presents a gourmet repast of his 11 favourite myths about the French, from barefaced fibs to insouciant self-deception and charming vérité
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The week in higher education
Credit: Nick Newman•"At my signal, unleash hell" - not David Willetts launching the new fees system, but the most famous line from a Hollywood actor who apparently yearns to work in UK higher...