Where’s the value in vivas?
One way to avoid “cavalier attitudes” in vivas is to stop having vivas altogether. What purpose does the viva serve after a PhD has been examined by an internal and two external examiners, which in...
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Gimme, gimme, gimme
Universities, it seems, urgently need to recruit more graduates to join their “philanthropy workforce” (“Sector must recruit more fundraisers or risk lowering the promotional bar”, News, 1 May)....
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Cancer’s causes neglected
You report that cancer survival rates and expenditure on cancer research in the UK are both rising (“Survival rates up. Funding up. Hopes up”, Research Intelligence, 8 May), but fail to mention that...
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Market ideologues
You have to love the twisted logic of Australia’s conservative government, which remains blindly wedded to the failed idea of marketising higher education (“Tuition fee caps removed in Australian...
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Hunger for raw facts
To pledge greater transparency about animal experimentation is not enough; the general public need to know the facts (“Animal testing agreement aims at more transparency”, News, www....
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Brazil’s own goal
The recall from Canada and Australia of students on Brazil’s flagship study-abroad scheme, Science Without Borders, is a very sad story (“Flying back to Rio: dismay as Brazilian scholars sent home”,...
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We need more foxes and fewer hedgehogs
In his essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin, the philosopher, drew on an ancient Greek aphorism to classify famous writers. He wanted to distinguish between those who view the world through...
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Aberystwyth v-c faces chorus of digital disapproval
Petition to oust head follows Twitter hoax set up in her name
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Research funding on the rise
The amount of research council funding universities receive has increased in real terms by about half since 2002-03, according to a new report
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All Welsh universities ‘deserve’ share of research cash
Welsh Assembly committee says institutions should receive minimum award regardless of quantity of world-class research
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HR head: union shutout ignited staff enthusiasm
Derecognising Unite and Unison has led to greater employee engagement with the university, says the University of Reading’s John Brady
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Chatham House Archives published online
First module of digital resource, covering 1920 to 1979, shines light on colonialism’s end, communism and Cold War
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Campus close-up: GSM London
Unhindered by league tables, a for-profit business-focused institution says it is happily widening participation
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Murder and ‘blasphemy’: Pakistan’s academy in danger
Scholars at Risk Network warns of threats to academic freedom after the killing of a lawyer defending a scholar
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Room for growth in Japan-UK student traffic
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls for ‘globalisation’ and more exchanges at university leaders’ summit at University College London