Hoary argument
Alan Ryan has got it completely wrong ("Offing the cap", 17/24 December). The idea of tuition fees was originally sold to us as a way of permitting 50 per cent of all pupils leaving secondary school...
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Teaching hypocrisy
Is it very surprising that a study states that research-driven universities are just paying lip service to the recognition of good teaching ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December)? For...
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Religious tensions
Your article "Something rotten? Row over Wales' validation of 'fundamentalist' BAs" (10 December) raises some interesting questions about the Danish university system, theological training and not...
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Making a rehash of it
Sally Feldman may regret the passing of local newspapers, but if people wanted to read about "frying eggs on pavements, confronting noisy neighbours and tackling trespassing tree-huggers", local...
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Same old tune
With all due respect to Jeremy Dibble ("Alternative sheep music", 17/24 December), it is hardly news that While Shepherds Watched their Flocks has been - and sometimes still is - sung to the tune of...
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Apology redux
All I have to say to Robert Segal ("All apologies", 17/24 December) is that I'm sorry you feel that way.Stephen Kukureka, Worcester.
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Differential impact 2
While very much in favour of the resistance to the impact agenda as any kind of rational measure of research, am I the only one who finds the term “curiosity-driven” research naive, self-defeating...
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Reaction forces SFC rethink on knowledge-transfer plans
It's back to the drawing board as teaching funding proposals are also delayed. Hannah Fearn reports
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Some run with KT, others have yet to take first steps
Universities are still failing to support knowledge transfer despite three quarters of academics now engaging in it.A study commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England examining...
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Cardiff part-timers awaiting contracts and pay
Hundreds of lecturers on an hourly rate at Cardiff University are working without contracts, and some have not been paid since the beginning of the academic year.New conditions for the employees were...
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News in brief
Budget squeezeHistoric-building fund scrappedA £40 million fund to help universities preserve their historic buildings has been axed in a move that will see the universities of Oxford and Cambridge...
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'Excellence'? Aye, there's the 'hub'
Architects reveal commonly used buzzwords in university commissions. Hannah Fearn writes
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Tighten your belts and prepare for a year of cut and thrust
There will be no easy rides for anyone in higher education in 2010. Figures from the sector reflect on influences and aims
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University of Bath - Help for the aged
Chemists and biologists from the University of Bath have developed a technique that could be used to diagnose and develop treatments for age-related conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, diabetes...
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Cardiff University - Gender bender
Men and women are at the same risk of violence, but only until they start drinking, according to research from Cardiff University. Findings from the university's Violence and Society Research Group...