Market pay piffle
In defending vice-chancellors’ high salaries (“Are vice-chancellors in the UK overpaid – all things considered?”, Opinions, 3 August), Len Shackleton brings out the tired old argument, also used in...
Search
-
-
Moral hazards
Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds (Letters, 3 August) makes a useful suggestion for some “calibration” across universities for what it actually means to meet Higher Education Academy standards. The...
-
Estimates may vary
The article “UK university pension scheme deficit widens to £12.6 billion” is misleading. The Universities Superannuation Scheme is not in deficit in the ordinary meaning of the word. It is very cash...
-
Stalin the art lover
It was fascinating to see the article “Is ‘teaching intensity’ a good measure of student learning?” (News, 3 August) illustrated with a rare photograph of V. I. Lenin, cheroot in hand, pointing out...
-
National Student Survey 2017: overall satisfaction results
The full results for UK universities ranked by student satisfaction in the 2017 National Student Survey (NSS)
-
Going to university at the age of 37
Although university is traditionally seen as the next step after school, it’s never too late to go into higher education, writes Robyn Bateman
-
Australian 'sea bug attack' scientists: getting our facts right (and why it matters)
Joanne Taylor and Genefor Walker-Smith on the importance of scholarly rigour – even when the media want answers fast
-
Sabotaged NSS results are an 'own-goal' for UK higher education
The success of the student boycott of the National Student Survey is not necessarily a success for students, writes Andrew McRae
-
How to teach students to think beyond their subject
The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective
-
The hangover: academic bad behaviour bites back in class
Study finds that students who witness lecturers misbehaving are more likely to display incivility in lectures or seminars
-
National Student Survey 2017: campuses omitted after NUS boycott
Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions
-
Any representation is too much for some Mary Beard critics
Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom
-
The 10 most beautiful universities in the US
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but you’d be hard-pressed to find somebody who can’t see the beauty in these 10 US universities