An increasing number of people in the UK are choosing to have cosmetic surgery. This is having an impact on the workplace, often putting employers into unknown territory when an employee asks for...
Rising numbers of Poppleton academics are avoiding their full marking load by claiming that mitigating circumstances marred their capacity to mark. According to our ever-expanding Human Resources...
Gauging the 'public value' of arts graduates is a tricky job, says Sally Feldman
Universities know academies have their risks, but they join out of a sense of justice and mission. Just don't expect wonders
An acclaimed Portuguese artist who taught printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art for 35 years has died, aged 76.Bartolomeu dos Santos, known as Barto, started at the school as a student in the...
Philip Altbach displays a startling lack of understanding of what open access means ("Hidden cost of open access", 5 June). It does not mean abandoning peer review and putting all academic work on...
Steve Fuller (Letters, 5 June) misunderstands what the Research Information Network report on the costs of the scholarly communications system says about peer review. We calculate that the time spent...
As the editor of Irish Writing in the 20th Century: A Reader and someone mentioned in Alistair McCleery's feature ("Dead hands keep a closed book", 5 June), let me add a brief comment.Like James...
Nothing illustrates more the insidious damage being done to higher education through the colonisation of university processes by a rampant managerialism than the University of Nottingham's...
Given that in every encounter I have had with him, Jonathan Ray has been courteous and professional, I wonder why he might have been provoked to reply in mildly pugnacious terms to some of his...
It is refreshing to read Susan Bassnett admitting that universities sometimes fall short of the research-led teaching ideal because it is expedient to do so, but it is quite another thing to argue...
Your article "FP7 largesse may bring a nasty surprise" (5 June) provided a partial and misleading picture.In Framework Programme 7, all costs will be reimbursed at a percentage of eligible costs...
Terence Kealey thinks he has solved the problem of academic freedom (Books, 29 May). It is, he confidently tells us, the freedom to hold views that result from the application of the "academic method...
City academies have helped raise the sights of some young people in higher education cold spots, but there remains fierce ideological and practical opposition from many academics. Hannah Fearn...
Psychoanalysis may have little place in university psychology departments, but it is flourishing within the arts and humanities. Matthew Reisz reports on the debates - and divisions - between...