In most big cities in the UK it is easy to tell the new university from the old one. Just look for concrete instead of sandstone as you approach. But we show this week that exactly 15 years after the...
How could your leader of April have got it so wrong? It stated that Bournemouth University was "positioning itself as a teaching-only institution where scholarship and research take a distant second...
I feel sorry for the reader who wrote in response to the report "staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (Letters, April 20). He must have been very unlucky in his experience of...
Your unnamed contributor's assertion that "even the best university administrators are at best only fourth-raters" raised eyebrows here at the Association of University Administrators and kick-...
I was staggered by your anonymous letter-writer's insensitive and inaccurate depiction of university administrative staff as "fourth-raters" to whom we ought to "stop being deferential". Without...
The article "Competition swells ranks of professors" (April ) asserts that there is "a danger of 'grade inflation' taking place so that the title could begin to lose its value as a mark of academic...
The letter from David Booth (April ) regarding job titles made me chuckle, having once been a fuel-injection engineer (aka petrol-pump attendant). Does he not realise that research administrators are...
In his article "Blind faith" (Features, April ), Anthony Glees berates my discipline for turning down "a government offer of £1.3 million to study how to combat terrorism by countering radicalisation...
Being a vegetarian is about taking the (easy) ethical choice that you don't require animals to be killed just so that you can eat them. Nigel Hunt's appalling letter (April ) suggests that it is OK...
I was extremely interested to read the article on the advent of psychometric testing in higher education ("New tests will probe employee suitability", April 20). But my interest in its use comes from...
Tony Greenstein's letter is evidence of the way people adhere religiously to one narrative without doing further research (Letters, April ). In addition to reading work by Ilan Pappe, Greenstein...
Podcasts, blogs and wikis are making inroads into education and work - and academics want to be in the vanguard. Matt Baker reports They're whispering about her in the corridors of Whitehall. Her...
The European Union has ambitions to make the Continent into a single knowledge zone in which information and people can move as freely as goods. Information technology is a vital part of this vision...
Vicarious learning, in which people learn from watching others learn, helps students improve their clinical reasoning, writes Richard Cox Vicarious learning is the idea that people can learn via...
With party politics and voter turnouts waning but many citizens active on local and global issues, experts ponder what might stir a democratic revival Only local autonomy will restore people's belief...