Please attend carefully
I was surprised to see poor attendance and the associated failures in assessment being offered as reasons to restrict access to higher education ("Wise up to the naked truth", 25 February). This...
I was surprised to see poor attendance and the associated failures in assessment being offered as reasons to restrict access to higher education ("Wise up to the naked truth", 25 February). This...
I am not surprised by the questions raised by your article "Pressure grows on national bargaining" (25 February). Many of us in human resources have been warning about this for many years: during the...
Why are some vice-chancellors turning their backs on national bargaining? Following a derisory pay "settlement", we see that London South Bank University may withhold the 0.5 per cent increase. In...
As someone whose formal higher education was entirely part-time, I'm sure that Lord Mandelson's enthusiasm for the part-time option is founded more on economic expediency than his own student...
Asking Steven Rose to review a book on evolutionary anthropology is about as likely to deliver balance as sending Richard Dawkins a theology primer ("What's in a number?" 25 February). It makes...
I have two memories of delightful English-French translation ("Words with no meaning", 18 February). One was in an article based on a conference paper, where I had quoted Mary Evans' term, "...

Bureaucracy is an inescapable fact of life in today's academy. John Morgan unravels the true extent and consequences of red tape
British universities' inexorable loss of autonomy will soon reach the point of no return unless all institutions work together to win real public support for their sector, says Nigel Thrift

The red peril - What bureaucracy really costs the academy
Massive turnout backs UCU move to combat job cuts. John Morgan reports
UCU cites Crossrail arrangement as evidence that plan could work. Hannah Fearn reports
Gove says move will prevent devaluation of qualification. Melanie Newman writes
AoC considers options as cuts and cap on student numbers threaten degree provision. Hannah Fearn reports

The revolutionaries who shook the academy’s foundations allowed the managerialists to take over
A new report from the Council of Science and Technology urges the Government to rethink the way it supports the UK’s research base. Zoë Corbyn writes