Turkey must stop persecuting academics
The Turkish government and the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, continue to oppress political dissent violently and illegally in Turkey. On 11 January, Erdoğan accused 1,128 academics of...
The Turkish government and the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, continue to oppress political dissent violently and illegally in Turkey. On 11 January, Erdoğan accused 1,128 academics of...
Harvey Goldstein outlines an open access model for journal publishing that he claims is neither green nor gold (“Try DIY, not green or gold”, Opinion, 1 May). But, like all journals, the model has to...
Paul White’s suggestion that we ban country-specific student societies to ensure that foreign students integrate (“Ban country clubs so foreign students mix”, 4 April) is a radical idea but futile....
We, the undersigned members of the 2013-14 University and College Union Higher Education Committee, write in response to the article “UCU militants press for maximum strike force” (News, 5 June)....
If open access is to be extended to books, two questions need to be put straight away. How are authors and publishers to position the boundary between books for whose publication the author must in...
Editors and publishers do take steps to drop reviewers who are abusive, inaccurate or cursory in their work. However, we are often faced with the fact that almost any review is better than nothing....
In June 2013, the University of Salford announced that it would close its modern languages department. Following the local University and College Union branch’s resolution to support colleagues...
An oral history project seeks to collect the memories of the ‘Ten Pound Poms’ and those they left behind
How are universities dealing with upheavals in the training of key workers, from teachers and nurses to police officers and social workers?
Scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of revisiting
Roger Watson is to be applauded for his opinion article on nurse preparation ("We need the IV leaguers", 28 July). The apparent incompatibility of "caring" with higher education is a tired cliche...
Thank you for publishing Roger Watson's article on why we need nurses to be educated to degree level in the UK ("We need the IV leaguers", 28 July).As Watson makes clear, there is absolutely no...
Openness must be a two-way streetThe feature about openness in universities (“Show and tell”, 4 April) implicitly makes a point about asymmetry. If institutions are not open, how can they make claims...
University of SouthamptonJenny FlemingAn academic who has spent more than 15 years working with police agencies worldwide on a number of interdisciplinary topics has become co-director of a...