One size will not fit all (1 of 3)
The Higher Education Academy's consultation on the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning recently closed. The review was undertaken in part because take-up of the...
The Higher Education Academy's consultation on the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning recently closed. The review was undertaken in part because take-up of the...
Two strengths of the original standards framework were its brevity and its ability to be implemented in differing higher education contexts. The proposed changes to the standard descriptors imply a...
The HEA's consultation on a UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning has offered a valuable opportunity to reflect on how universities support their lecturers'...
In your letters page last week, correspondents reviled me as "elitist" ("Elitist pipe dream", January). At least it makes a change from being reviled as a lefty.I wish the writers had taken the...
Apropos the discussion of research concentration, Martin McQuillan and his colleagues from Kingston University claim to be on a "greater mission: social inclusion" with a concern for the "...
It is possible that the haemorrhaging of funding to European Union students studying in the UK arises because of the way in which we describe the student support system ("Fees shift could leave UK '...
There are misconceptions about the British Film Institute's proposals for the relocation of its library from central London to its building on the South Bank. Namely, that this will result in...
John Warren says the now ubiquitous title "professor" is "associated with the publication of highly regarded papers in increasingly narrow fields" ("Here a prof, there a prof", Opinion, January). I...
Isn't it rather ironic that Newman University College in Birmingham used financial savings from carbon reduction schemes to purchase a new gritter to keep the campus open during snowy weather ("Get a...
Via study-away sites, local partnerships, portals and fully fledged overseas campuses, ambitious universities in the West are increasingly keen to take root elsewhere. John Morgan asks how the...

What do your shoes say about you? More than you think, says Caroline Knowles. They hint at your class, job, where you live and even how you spend your leisure time

Duncan Wu is impressed by an intelligent, complex murder story that has been poorly received in the US

Gary Day winces at an encounter between Sir Paul Nurse and James Delingpole, where rationality loses
Liverpool Hope UniversityMiss Canada to Lady MadonnaA Canadian musician has become the first student to complete the long and winding road to graduation on Liverpool Hope University's master's degree...

This collapsible top hat belonged to the conductor and composer Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941).