Credit: Natasha RazinaRare event: Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne SchattenEdinburgh International and Fringe FestivalsEdinburghEdinburgh is officially a city of 12 different festivals, but, with...
Fears that our university may be gaining a reputation for indecisiveness have been increased by the news of another change to our proposed undergraduate tuition fees for next year.When the new fees...
MPs want to see a more robust and transparent peer-review process. Paul Jump writes
Helen Fulton is unrepentant about her addiction to Glyndebourne, where high-end opera meets country-house garden to the delight of those of the English bourgeoisie who have secured tickets
• Some academics seek immortality through their ideas; Robert Ettinger sought immortality by having his body placed in a deep freezer after his death. Mr Ettinger, who has died at the age of 92,...
In the scrum for AABs, elite institutions risk putting themselves beyond the reach of disadvantaged students
The University of Western Australia's Arts Building is a solemn 1930s stone structure, built beside the Swan River estuary but lacking the panache of other campus edifices with their hints of De...
University of SalfordGeorge McKayNot many academics are known to "rock out" during their lectures, but one has managed to get pretty close. George McKay, professor of cultural studies at the...
Education’s true aims comprise a very short list, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Just penning a book isn't enough - academic authors want people to buy it and read it. Promotion is the publisher's domain, of course, but Dale Salwak is convinced that writers can make a big...
The PhD by publication offers an alternative path to the traditional PhD by thesis, but it is viewed by some as inferior. Richard Willis refutes the argument that it is second rate, and Christopher...
The British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Council of Heads and Professors of Sociology welcome the Commons Science and Technology Committee's report on peer review.We are pleased that it...
I am writing in response to your article "There's no good reason for this inequality" (30 June). An accompanying table ("How women's pay compares with men's") shows some interesting comparisons and...
For the active researcher, retirement is not really a recognised state. But for research that is heavily reliant on research council funding, then a contracted appointment with a university is...
I note that Lord Rees, master of Trinity College, Cambridge and former president of the Royal Society, in a conference on the future of the humanities has said that while it is accepted that...