Noel Gale, 1931-2014
A leading physicist who switched mid-career to acclaimed collaborative work in archaeology has died
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Grant winners - 6 March 2014
Economic and Social Research CouncilAward winner: Andy FurlongInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £67,750The making of the “precariat”: unemployment, underemployment and work-poor young adults...
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Part-time researchers on the rise
The number of part-time research-only contracts at UK universities has increased by 770 since 2009-10
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Fees ‘amnesty’ tops UUK’s pre-election wish list
Parties exhorted to prioritise research investment and internationalisation
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Redefining success may help women achieve potential
New book explores challenges female academics at Cambridge face on route to top
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Gallup launches graduate satisfaction survey in US
First-ever American poll to be carried out on the effect of higher education on happiness and success
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Poland: growth stalls in an academy overdue for reform
Solutions to demographic, quality and employability issues needed for a sector slow to adapt to globalisation
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The wheel deal?
I’m not sure what was more shocking about Kevin Fong’s article “Gear-shift mechanism” (13 February): that University College London apparently does not foster transferable skills in its...
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Best buy at Poppleton
Laurie Taylor’s Which?-style review of Professor Lapping (20 February) reprises his 1980s response to a call by Lord Joseph for an academic equivalent to Which?. At that time in Taylor’s column, the...
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It’s right to take a break
Rebecca Braun’s article about maternity leave for academics (“She knows, she tried”, Features, 23 January) gave a rather negative view of the experience and detracted from some of the progress that...
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Public interest defence
The seriousness of the threatened takeover of the Institute of Education, University of London by University College London (“Love, honour, obey: will the IoE repent its UCL union at leisure”,...
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Inaccessible research
In the article “Open access may have little impact on time-poor firms” (News, February), representatives of the publisher Elsevier suggest that achieving the UK government’s goal of full open access...
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Real test starts after PhD
The feature “Fit to supervise?” (20 February) suggests that poor supervision is to blame for “substandard doctoral theses”. But poor theses are produced by poor students. No degree of expert...
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Duty to share data
After carefully reviewing the issue of sharing personal data, Dame Fiona Caldicott concluded: “The duty to share information can be as important as the duty to protect patient confidentiality.” The...
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Perverse values and investments in REF
Claims about the cost burden imposed by “onerous” methodology for the research excellence framework (“The REF: how was it for you?”, February) ignore the behavioural response of academics and...