Skills training is gaining ground
More work placements are making graduates more employable, says QAA. Rebecca Attwood reports
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20 years ago
Debt collectors may not be the most popular people in the world but those employed to gather in delinquent loan repayments from American students seem to be happy in their work. Last week, the latest...
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News in brief
International studentsLondon tops destination listLondon is still the number one choice for international students, according to an organisation representing the city's universities. It hosted 89,955...
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Writing by backlight
Tara Brabazon challenges her students to break from their reliance on Google and read Poulantzas in the original
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Hot papers in agricultural and food sciences 2006-07
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators
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Discrimination by association
I am updating my institution’s equality and diversity policy, and I have seen references in the news to the term “discrimination by association”. What does this mean and does it apply to us? “...
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'Teaching' to be Abolished
Our new Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, announced this week that she was giving serious thought to the idea of abandoning teaching at Poppleton.She explained to our reporter Keith...
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6.40am - special delivery
Kevin Fong treasures the scary euphoria of an unexpected home birth
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Guest leader: Intellectual sneering is no joke
The low opinion academics have of the public will not change until scholars open themselves up to debate, says Dennis Hayes
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David Leslie, 1953-2008
David Leslie, the champion racing-car driver who died in a plane crash on 30 March, was well known to fans of motorsport. But he has been less celebrated for his role at Swansea Metropolitan...
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Grant 'facilitators' boost Oxford's research income
Specialist team saves scholars time, widens funder base and doubles applications. John Gill reports
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Publishing isn't doomed 2
Sophie Goldsworthy in "What an academic publisher can do for you" ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April) argues that Oxford University Press promotes "scholarly integrity" in terms of how it "delivers...
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Publishing isn't doomed 3
I read "Publish and be ignored" with some amazement. It gives a highly selective, inaccurate picture of academic publishing in the UK. To talk of "the sad decline of British academic publishing" is a...
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The slippery legal slope
We hear from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator that complaints are increasing. One way to ensure that they go on increasing is to adopt the sort of overly formal student contract that some...