Not such a bargain after all
I see the Russell Group are now quoting a figure of £160,000 in increased lifetime earnings for their graduates, in order to justify increasing their tuition fees.There must be some difficulty in...
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Affair comment
Oh dear. Margot Feelbetter's advice to an academic whose colleague may be having a relationship with a student ("Blog Confidential", May) demonstrates all the confusions of the prurient but misses...
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Recognise anyone?
Nathan Emmerich (Letters, May) is rightly concerned at the promotion of a view of research students as infantile. But humour has a long and respected role in challenging the status quo. Jorge Cham's...
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Sign in haste, repent later
Regarding the Fruitbatgate affair ("Yikes! Attack of the killer viral fruit bats", May), I would argue that the reputational damage has been done not to University College Cork but to the 3,763...
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Engineering change
John Turner (Letters, May) has not provided any specific examples of universities that have been prevented from introducing innovative engineering curricula by professional bodies' requirements. If...
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Richard Gregory, 1923-2010
Obituary
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'Nobody told me' - v-c claim
Our vice-chancellor is giving "serious thought" to following in the footsteps of Peter McCaffery, the vice-chancellor of Cumbria, who is leaving his job because at the time of his appointment he was...
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From where I sit: Think outside the book
A few years ago, I served on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. The committee was formed in the belief that young scholars in...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research Intelligence: No more plodding through
ESRC's first peer-review college aims to boost the success rates of grant applications. Neha Popat reports
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Leader: Flaunt your beauty and intellect
As universities are being forced into the commercial world, academics shouldn't be shy of launching a charm offensive
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Duke of moral hazards
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is unimpressed by some of the Windsor clan
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Nothing shallow about Obama the liquid avatar
Bill Clinton may have had his moments with Monica Lewinsky, but Barack Obama is the "epitome of runniness" in an "era of disembedding without re-embedding", according to the inaugural issue of...
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THE unveils broad, rigorous new rankings methodology
Tally of key indicators jumps from six to 13 in 2010 world league tables, reports Phil Baty
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Academy's fame culture dissected
Symposium considers the 'mediagenic persona' of the public intellectual. Matthew Reisz reports