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  1. Holiday and sickness absence

    We are often asked what the legal position is in relation to holiday for employees who are off on long-term sick leave – in particular where their absence has spanned over an institution’s holiday...

    #Legal

  4. Vice-Chancellor Denies 'Jumping with Joy'

    The campus was rocked this week by claims that our Vice-Chancellor behaved inappropriately following the recent dismissal of Doctor G.T. Flagg from the Department of Management Studies. These claims...

    #Laurie

  5. Accentuate the positive

    Does knowing your personality traits help you lead better? asks Sally Feldman

    #Columnists
    #Opinion
    #Sally Feldman

  6. Off Piste: Dope and glory

    The ban on performance-boosting substances in sport is a self-satisfied nonsense, argues historian Geoffrey Alderman in a fortnightly series allowing academics to step outside their area of expertise

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  8. Peter Carpenter, 1942-2008

    As an expert in fluid mechanics, Peter Carpenter's research took him into areas as diverse as butterflies' flight and the swimming of dolphins.After a degree at the University of London, where he...

    #People

  9. Taking the HEA to task over accountability

    I am writing as a member of the Higher Education Academy academic council. I was elected in October as a representative of the fellows. My platform was highly critical of the HEA leadership. I...

    #Letters

  10. Joined in battle 1

    Derek Attridge is absolutely right when he argues that criticism in literary degrees should be open to what he calls a certain "magic": that intake of breath at the unexpected, the requirement that...

    #Letters

  11. Joined in battle 2

    It's bad enough that so many diverse fields of learning are increasingly subject to the crass positivism that masquerades as "knowledge" in modern culture. My own fields of psychotherapy, with its...

    #Letters

  12. Read, and learn

    We have all had the depressing experience of seeing students picking up work we've conscientiously marked and moderated, glance at the grade, then drop it to the bottom of their bag, never to be...

    #Letters

  13. Presses under pressure 1

    Your critique of UK academic publishers was an unsettling read ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April).You ignored the vast majority of publishers operating creatively to bring specialised books to a...

    #Letters

  14. Presses under pressure 2

    Your one-sided attack on British academic publishing was a missed opportunity to examine the difficulties publishers face at a time when dwindling library budgets and low incentives for academics to...

    #Letters

  15. Ruled by the bottom line

    If the Arts and Humanities Research Council will no longer support monographs ("AHRC to rethink project funding", 1 May), it might as well change its name to the Arts and Humanities Research Cull....

    #Letters