Don't play the blame game
On reading the long list of website comments on the story "Lecturer apologises to researcher for swapping names in grant application", 14 May, I was, not for the first time, astonished at the sound...
On reading the long list of website comments on the story "Lecturer apologises to researcher for swapping names in grant application", 14 May, I was, not for the first time, astonished at the sound...
Alan Ryan ("The trouble with tables", 21 May) writes with his customary acerbic wit on the absurdity of attempting to rank UK universities on single scales in terms of quality. I was astonished by...
We are writing to support protests against decisions made by Imperial College London in the light of government funding cuts. One consequence is a proposed reduction in college-funded foreign-...
Ann Singleton et al are to be congratulated on their principled stance on the UK Border Agency's (UKBA) new regulations ("We won't collude with efforts to use the academy to police immigration", 7...

The Reith Lectures have long been a premier platform for public intellectuals, but, Matthew Reisz asks, are scholarly communicators endangered in an era of dumbing down, media fragmentation and...
Like the communities they serve, Northern Ireland's two universities have put inclusiveness and cohesion at the top of the agenda. But some elements of the past linger, Hannah Fearn finds
The culture shock experienced by non-religious state-educated undergraduates at elite universities sometimes sends them running into the arms of Christian Unions. In seeking supportive friends, they...

Step up to the mike - The decline of the public intellectual voice leaves a dangerous void
Survey shows that some plan to slash research budgets by up to 40 per cent. Zoë Corbyn reports
Royal college cites doctors’ ‘negative attitudes’ to subject in highlighting dearth of entrants. Hannah Fearn reports
Outrage over MPs’ expenses will be as nothing to the howls unleashed when people learn that ‘education, education, education’ was a false promise, says Gloria Monday

I decide to get a courier service to collect my things from the university. 17 boxes. They are all delivered in NICEDAY packaging. “Have a nice day,” says the courier. “I will, thank you,” I reply. I...
Problems with ‘consistency and interpretation’ mean it may be time to ‘bust open’ classification. Hannah Fearn writes

MPs demand apology from Lammy as they learn there will be no new scrutiny of London Met crisis. Melanie Newman reports
MPs allege that Hefce colluded with university over inaccurate data. Melanie Newman reports