Leader: They won't want to be stuffed
Universities cherish autonomy. When government strings truss them like Christmas turkeys, some might break for freedom
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Research Intelligence - Did Hoffmann take Nobel for the team?
Nobel row raises questions of who gets credit for research in an age of in 'hype'. Paul Jump writes
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The week in higher education
• As the National Union of Students revealed that more students are turning to sex work to cope with the cost of university, the Daily Mail mounted a graphic exposé. On 15 December, it told the tale...
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From where I sit - Credit where it's due
After four years in Cairo helping to establish the British University in Egypt (BUE), I am more convinced than ever that one of my long-held beliefs holds true: the UK does not value its universities...
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Appointments
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJohn SwarbrookeAn academic with more than a decade's experience of working in the tourism industry has been appointed professor of tourism and hospitality at...
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Boom, bust and bonuses
Like capitalism, science has flaws, but it’s the best we’ve got, says Kevin Fong
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Glory in Excelsior!
Superhero comics gave Stephen Mumford the reading bug at an early age and a passion for the form he retains to this day. Even in the blockbuster era, he says, panels can't be beat...
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One quango to rule them all?
Government plans for the Higher Education Funding Council for England are ringing alarm bells across the sector. Can it really become a consumer protection body and fund universities without...
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Super-selection only perpetuates privilege (1 of 2)
Baroness Blackstone is rightly concerned about the social filtering going on in UK higher education ("Super-selection creates a monoculture that does not benefit society", 15 December). It is...
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Super-selection only perpetuates privilege (2 of 2)
I thought it was hilarious that, in an article on the progress being made by Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at Mansfield College to promote fair access to the University of Oxford ("For fair access,...
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Blinkered Christian soldiers (1 of 2)
I notice that whenever people rush to declare what Christianity has done for us and to proclaim the West's historical debt to it, they tend to don rather rosy glasses.R. Iestyn Daniel (Letters, 15...
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Blinkered Christian soldiers (2 of 2)
R. Iestyn Daniel is arguably right to assert that the "West" owes a historical debt to Christianity.However, he spins a Eurocentric, teleological historical narrative when he declares that...
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All white, not all right (1 of 2)
The findings of the Equality Challenge Unit's report that you cover under the headline "76% white and male? That's today's UK professoriate" (15 December) should be no surprise to anyone. There have...
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All white, not all right (2 of 2)
You report that 76 per cent of UK professors are white men. Unfortunately, that is not surprising. Indeed, it really understates the problem because in addition, very few of them have beards, either...
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A truth-based professional
I worked with Gillian Radcliffe, who recently resigned as head of communications at the London College of Communication ("PR chief's parting shot cites LCC head's 'unfair' management style", 15...