Who really pays the price?
It was hardly a surprise to read of concern about non-UK European Union students not repaying the loan for their tuition fees (“Interest is not mere linguistics”, Leader, 20 August). This was obvious...
It was hardly a surprise to read of concern about non-UK European Union students not repaying the loan for their tuition fees (“Interest is not mere linguistics”, Leader, 20 August). This was obvious...
The William Shockley example that Lincoln Allison uses in his discussion of academics sharing controversial ideas is quite telling here, as no one would have given two figs what a semiconductor...
I was very interested by the feature concerning low refereeing standards (“On the receiving end”, Features, 6 August). One regrettable practice that was not mentioned was the increasing tendency for...
In reviewing Debarati Sanyal’s Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (Books, 6 August), Robert Eaglestone summarises and endorses her argument that “the memory of the Holocaust...
Jane Darcy is wrong when she says that only two chapters in my book, 30 Great Myths about the Romantics, concern women (Books, 6 August). In addition to that on women writers generally, there are...
When lists of academics with unusual names are made, Professor Richard Titball (how could his parents, how could they?), the microbiologist from the University of Exeter, usually gets a mention (“...

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

The TEF is likely to prove critical in deciding the fate of higher education’s teaching champion, says Chris Havergal

You can’t measure human skills the way you do engineering systems, Robert Dingwall and Mary Byrne McDonnell observe

Opportunities for informal scholarly interaction often leave many academics on the sidelines, says Jenny Pickerill

Maria Yudkevich, Philip Altbach and Laura Rumbley examine the parallels between the grading of global institutions and sport

Being head of undergraduate studies was an eye-opener for Stephen Curry

Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study