Anti-austerity? Come join the resistance
We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...
We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...
Universities 'falling over themselves' to hire staff to handle REF case studies. Paul Jump reports
It is perhaps unsurprising that the Confederation of British Industry mistakenly sees market-driven commercial product development as central to the ethos of a publicly funded university ("Tax threat...
AHRC chief tells angry academic entrepreneurialism is no threat to basic research. Zoe Corbyn reports
Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...
Academics and others discuss a typical working week
Academy's challenges feature among wide-ranging, myth-popping debates. Matthew Reisz reports
Mixed response from sector as 20 per cent figure for first REF is announced. Paul Jump reports
Researchers will have to demonstrate the economic or social impact of their work to win funding under controversial new rules announced by Research Councils UK.From this week, applicants for grants...
The government's White Paper will undermine higher education in England. It makes frequent mention of the excellence of the system it now threatens and proposes new forms of financing that are more...
Academics' concerns over the effect of impact assessment 'met with contempt'. Paul Jump reports
Two years ago in this publication ("Modest revolt to save research from red tape", Letters, 12 February 2009), we wrote to express our concern with the research councils' new initiative now known as...
An open letter to David WillettsWe the undersigned are writing to you in your capacity as the minister of state for universities and science to again ask you to initiate an inquiry into the role and...
David Delpy, chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, argues that there is "a risk that those outside the academy would believe that all academics (are) opposed to...
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