Hefce must keep closer eye on widening access, say MPs
Specific improvement plans needed for badly performing universities as working-class participation rises just two percentage points in four years. Melanie Newman reports
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Vice-chancellor leaves University of East London
Martin Everett, the vice-chancellor of the University of East London, has left the university. He resigned on 24 February after more than seven months on suspension.Professor Everett was suspended...
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No going back - V-C speaks
Our Vice-Chancellor has reacted angrily to the revelation in The Sunday Times that John Denham, the Universities Secretary, is about to ask former polytechnics to revert to their previous role rather...
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Lecturers can't twitter on in new media age 1
In your cover feature "No apples for teachers" (19 February), George MacDonald Ross, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Leeds, says: "If there is anything worse than a bad lecture it...
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Lecturers can't twitter on in new media age 2
Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, 19 February) is guilty of a faux pas. The tiny survey evidence he calls on to support his argument serves only to question its validity, unless the fact that lecturers...
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Axeing cap will hit diversity
It is a great pity that some of the input offered to John Denham, Universities Secretary, as part of his review of higher education is not as well informed as it should be. For example, Sir John...
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Quit while you're behind
One can express nothing but admiration for those four units of assessment mentioned by Keith Richards that entered the latest research assessment exercise despite winning no funding in 2001 (Letters...
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Josef K is innocent
Bruce Christianson claims that in Kafka's novel The Trial Josef K "never once asks what the accusation against him actually is" (Letters, 19 February). Even the briefest of glances at the novel shows...
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SAS defends GM guide
Your article "Charity guide criticised for not declaring GM interests" (19 February) did not reflect the information provided by Sense About Science and the John Innes Centre in response to GM Watch'...
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No sense in school closure
The senior management board (SMB) at the University of Reading has recommended the closure of its School of Health and Social Care on the grounds that it is not viable ("Institutions draw up plans...
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Open plan clutters minds
The story on the evolution of academic work space into open-plan offices highlights the dangers of following corporate trends ("Office size shows who measures up", 12 February). The move from "...
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Do it yourself
Contrary to the assertion in your short piece on the subject ("The week in higher education", 19 February), I would have thought that there is nothing surprising about the fact that images of bikini-...
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Michael Majerus, 1954-2009
Michael Majerus, world-renowned entomologist and advocate of evolutionary theory, has died.He was born in London on 13 February 1954 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Royal Holloway...
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Key texts in human geography
Editors: Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin and Gill ValentineEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 256Price: £65.00 and £22.99ISBN 9781412922609 and 2616A book that will delight students on third-year history...
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An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century
Editors: Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James SidawayEdition: ThirdPublisher: Pearson Prentice HallPages: 544Price: £31.99ISBN 9780132056847The third edition of this well-established...