Independence and quality
Regarding the article “Private pair claim more public cash than LSE” (6 February), which looked at the support received by students at private providers from the Student Loans Company. We would like...
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Serfs up
When I was personally exposed to zero hours contracts two years ago, my reaction was “I thought serfdom had been abolished” (“It’s casual, and that’s a problem”, Leader, 13 March). Such contracts may...
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Small Business Charter Awards honour SME partnerships
Association of Business Schools will recognise institutions’ support for small firms and local economy
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History for tomorrow’s world
Ice cores from 11,700 years ago aid the climate change debate, but the recent past has its own share of lessons, says Howard P. Segal
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Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature, by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy
Jon Turney on the possibilities, real and imagined, of engineering the building blocks of life
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us From Other Animals, by Thomas Suddendorf
Eric Michael Johnson is gripped by an evaluation of what it is to be human and our place in nature
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First Light: A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle, by G. R. Evans
Perceptive questions abound in this Western-oriented discussion, says Ursula King
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The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, by Amanullah De Sondy
Julia Droeber praises an interrogation of the image of the Muslim man
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Try harder: Obama’s report cards do not convince
Proposal for scorecard system for US institutions ‘doomed to failure’
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‘Weak’ handling of disputed study risks trust in science
Researcher warns of ‘developing credibility crisis’ in reflection on retracted paper
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Black scholars still experience racism on campus
Black academics claim they are viewed as ‘outsiders’ and hindered in career advancement
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Cost of new fee regime may soon exceed the old
Hitting RAB charge ‘threshold’ will make £9,000 system more costly than old
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Sidestepping diagnosis
In her response to my challenge to the scientific validity of a dyslexia diagnosis (“Time to rethink dyslexia?”, Opinion, 6 March), Kate Saunders reframes the issue in terms of the needs of disabled...
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Growing appetite for university-industry collaborations
REF and ‘impact agenda’ makes sector look at collaborations with extra interest, scholars say
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Marketing spend up, but applications fail to follow suit
Post-92s’ student marketing spend rises as sector observers question its value