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Your article, "Balls can act, so why can't I: Lammy was vexed by London Met constraints" (15 April), reported that David Lammy, the higher education minister, was puzzled and frustrated by his...
Your article, "Balls can act, so why can't I: Lammy was vexed by London Met constraints" (15 April), reported that David Lammy, the higher education minister, was puzzled and frustrated by his...
Those who lecture and provide support at London Met have done a great job carrying on while those charged with managing the university lurched from one disaster to another. Some of those "managers"...
There is a much easier solution to the problem of global market pressure on vice-chancellors' salaries than the ones suggested in THE ("World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it", 8 April). If vice...
In "Third spaces and bragging rights: the administrator fights back" (8 April), Matthew Andrews asks: "Should we recapture the term 'administrator'?" I couldn't agree more.Recent reports, including...
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is correct when he writes that "the best test of what my British colleagues are now learning to call the 'impact' of research is: how does it change undergraduates' minds and...
Further to your report on the University of Essex's study into the health dangers of terrestrial trunked radio, or Tetra, "a type of phone mast" ("Hold the phones, it's fine", 15 April), it may be...
Shock, horror! Nice, predominantly middle-class academics to vote Lib Dem ("Clear preference for Clegg in poll", 8 April)?Perhaps more interesting than this entirely predictable outcome is the...
His research into Soviet and Stasi operatives and their sympathisers in the academy led Anthony Glees to see the risks posed today by Islamic terrorists on campus

The title could describe the feelings of overseas students in Australia and also the universities that enrol them. Phil Baty examines how violence against foreigners has put institutions' reliance on...
After an earlier plan was scrapped by an incoming Labor government, Australia is finally set to launch its scheme to assess the quality of all academic departments. Zoë Corbyn reports
You don't have to be a devout believer to study the Bible - its insights into the human condition are enlightening for everyone, writes Dale Salwak

The campus vote - Students and academics ramp up for a show of political clout
UCU ballots produce majorities backing industrial action at UCL and Westminster. John Morgan reports
Plan to scrap the subject is dropped along with threat of compulsory redundancies. John Morgan reports

Tara Brabazon offers 10 tips to make doctoral candidates’ oral examinations less of an ordeal