The week in higher education
"Bunk beds, night lectures, late loans. Welcome to university life in 2009." The difficulties facing this year's student intake were painfully clear last week when the student-loan system fell into...
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It's evolution, not revolution for REF
Continuities with RAE, but impact to equal one quarter of assessment scores. Zoë Corbyn reports
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News in brief
Public engagementCut out the 'mixed messages'British academics are confused by "mixed messages" from funding bodies and universities about how best to communicate their research findings, according...
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Daytime TV: Seat of learning
Gary Day is unpersuaded by Derren Brown, weeps for Naples and is unenlightened by Trinity
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Have cheque, will qualify
"Quite outrageous." That was the immediate reaction of our Head of Outside Funding, Georgina Flourish, to the news in Times Higher Education that a Cardiff University report was recommending "a...
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Play up and play the game
Felipe Fernández-Armesto experiences a Damascene sporting conversion
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Don't drive people to MP3 for HE
Hard times are no excuse to restrict access and leave many to experience higher education only through downloads
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From where I sit: Tedious politics, derelict academy
I have seen many election campaigns, but the one taking place in Germany right now is by far the most boring. It is easy to see why: 62.2 million Germans will cast their votes on September, and their...
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Stephen Instone, 1954-2009
Stephen Instone, an inspirational teacher of Classics, has died.
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Scholars are failing the integrity test 1
Two recent pieces in Times Higher Education struck me as shocking and pathetic. Richard Austen-Baker's determination to blame school teachers and educationists for the weaknesses of teaching in UK...
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Scholars are failing the integrity test 2
Once again we have an extraordinary letter that suggests that education is different from any other subject taught at university. I very much doubt that Richard Austen-Baker would agree that lawyers...
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Evidence? What evidence?
According to Phil Baty (Leader, 17 September), now is the time for the higher education sector to unite to make its case for enhanced public investment. He says: "It is obvious that we have a strong...
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High cost of 'diplomacy'
After the furore surrounding MPs' expenses, it was with amazement that I read the news item about the use of university funds by Simon Lee, former vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University,...
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Quote, unquote
In an item on the celebratory 25th birthday issue of Wasafiri ("Worthy traveller: publication that reshaped the landscape turns silver", 17 September), an article of mine in the birthday issue was...