At 1967’s Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, radicals preached Black Power, existential psychiatry, free universities and more. Martin Levy reports on an event that was as much a happening as...
Muslim superheroes, the language and literature of clouds, painterly prose and myths about rings
Book of the week: Human actions have killed off some species but may be kick-starting new ones, writes Jules Pretty
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Universities claim to bestow on graduates the key to open the door to any job: critical thinking. But even if they do, are employers interested?
It is difficult to say whether the recent criticisms of vice-chancellors’ salaries by Jo Johnson, the universities minister, and Lord Adonis, the former education minister (“Who has final say on pay...
In her opinion article “An open-access monograph dash could be disastrous” (27 July), Marilyn Deegan attacks a series of straw arguments about open access for books that have little basis in policy...
Whoever proposed the subject-level teaching excellence framework has little or no idea just how complex and varied a “subject” can be (“Subject-level TEF ‘bad for students’”, News, 27 July). Some...
I was a member of the team that awarded the original senior fellowships of the Higher Education Academy. That proved to be a very challenging task, but it taught all those involved how difficult it...
The “financial hole” that has been reported in the Universities Superannuation Scheme in no way corresponds to the health of the fund in the real world. Rather, it is the result of what a recent...
Synergy Grants will be worth a total of €250 million but, when piloted in 2012 and 2013, success rates were under 3 per cent
Threat to sue universities with policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants ‘deeply disturbing’