Tax haven from self-interest
Certain Russell Group members have displayed distinctly self-interested behaviour in past weeks with regard to student fees. Universities are social assets, yet the extremely well-paid managerial...
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The right kind of scrutiny
Good regulation of the rules that govern behaviour and practice may help standardise social work education. However, moves towards more open and transparent regulation run the risk of providing mere...
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Mastering the research
Your report "Concentrating cash will harm UK, says v-c" (15 July) confuses an important statistic about the research environment. Research degrees are heavily concentrated in research-intensive...
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Media not the only message
I admire Peter Hill's commitment to "keeping it visual" in studio-art PhDs ("How to pass the sight test", 15 July), but he appears to claim special status for studio artists. I can assure him that...
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Do better, Feelbetter 1
The advice dispensed in the Blog Confidential columns has been so consistently obsequious - "take care, keep your head down, do nothing" - that Dr Margot Feelbetter could only be a representative of...
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Do better, Feelbetter 2
The Blog Confidential on unions in higher education (8 July) is way off the mark. It is untrue that "union membership is falling": it has risen markedly over the past two years. And the "dilemma" of...
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Shirley Grundy, 1947-2010
An Australian educationalist who took on a leadership role in Hong Kong has died.Shirley Grundy was born in Perth, Australia on 25 June 1947. She started her career as a teacher in rural primary...
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Stop me if you've heard this one!
Our university has responded promptly to the news that Mark Russell and Helen Barefoot of the University of Hertfordshire's Learning and Teaching Institute have discovered the formula for the perfect...
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When the levy breaks
A flawed graduate tax will harm students and the sector, says Alan Ryan
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From where I sit: Noble quest for knowledge
How do you become an academic and a scholar? Usually, those who aim to research and teach are privileged with a formal education and spend their lives in academia. It is virtually impossible to come...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersRobert Eaglestone is professor of contemporary literature and thought, Royal Holloway, University of London. "I've been rereading Hannah...
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Off Piste: Pride of place
The British landscape and representations of it in art give rise to a happy patriotic glow in many people. Fred Inglis shares that fervour
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Research intelligence - Pilot wail: clarification please
Hefce's trial of the REF's impact assessment is highlighting where the problems lie, writes Paul Jump
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Leader: Open the lab doors to the light
To restore faith after Climategate, researchers must be clearer about the limits of peer review and transparent in their workings
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University of Dundee - Young avatars' growth
Footballers aged 12 to 14 in Tayside and Fife are being sought by researchers to take part in a project investigating the effects of intensive training on bone growth. Despite football's global...