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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...
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...
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...

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...

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...
A flawed graduate tax will harm students and the sector, says Alan Ryan
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...
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...
The British landscape and representations of it in art give rise to a happy patriotic glow in many people. Fred Inglis shares that fervour
Hefce's trial of the REF's impact assessment is highlighting where the problems lie, writes Paul Jump
To restore faith after Climategate, researchers must be clearer about the limits of peer review and transparent in their workings
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...
Embroidery created by a team at a Scottish institution will be a prominent feature of £12 million plans to restore Stirling Castle to its mid-16th-century splendour. The team led by Malcolm Lochhead...
Substances touted as "legal substitutes" for mephedrone contain similar or related chemicals to the recently outlawed drug, according to research. Academics at Lancaster University, the University of...
A piece of art inspired by the rise of female pugilism is among the exhibits going on display to celebrate the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. The Olympia exhibition in Farnham, Surrey...
Lecturers livened up a fire-safety warning for a conference by filming it as a Frank Sinatra-style video. The academics from Bucks New University emulated the famous crooner by donning dark suits and...