Animal rights activists will continue to be allowed to protest outside graduation ceremonies at the University of Oxford. The university had sought an order for an "exclusion zone" from the High...
Some of the arguments in your very useful survey of opinion on the scope for universities to generate income by licensing patented intellectual property ("A penny for your thoughts", 28 February)...
Charles Oppenheim (Letters, 21 February) says previous studies "have shown excellent correlations between research assessment exercise scores and citation studies and therefore indicate citation...
In the debate about research assessment exercise/research excellence framework systems, it has become prevalent for "STEM" and "non-STEM" to be the rhetoric of the day. What is clearly needed is a...
As an economist, I suppose I am a non-STEMMER. But with the increasingly frequent use of the terms STEM and non-STEM in policy circles, I worry about my discipline's legitimacy. What we need is a...
I cannot speak for every lecturer at London Metropolitan University, but I doubt that any of them have been calling for the Higher Education Council for England to claw back money, given the blows to...
It is a shame that an excellent leader was spoilt by a failure to check facts ("Pricing the brains of Britain", 28 February). "Where would we be, for instance, if Cern had decided to patent the...
You assert that "in America, administrators rather than faculty, appear to run the show" ("Waging a one-sided culture war", 21 February). How nice that would be for administrators if it were true. I...
Why should anyone be surprised by the efforts at London Metropolitan University to encourage students to provide good National Student Survey ratings ("Probe ordered into 'manipulation'", 28 February...
As the UK's principal funders of fundamental research, it is appropriate that our views on the research excellence framework are given such prominence ("Plans for RAE metrics draw fire from research...
In his elegant review of Stefan Collini's latest book, Ronan McDonald is wrong to dismiss Terry Eagleton's challenge to Collini's politics as "hollow" (Book of the Week, 28 February). One fine...
Your article on funding for specialist institutions ("Special treatment", 28 February) states that the Royal College of Art had a deficit of £1.1 million in the last financial year. This excludes...
If we must have the cliched image of a light bulb to represent an idea (Cover, 28 February), can we not at least upgrade to a low-energy bulb?Tony Harker, University College London.
I note that in his work on the use of colons ("Colonic information", 28 February) James Hartley has adopted the appalling American convention of following a colon by a capital letter. I note that you...
Why should anyone be surprised by the efforts at London Metropolitan University to encourage students to provide good National Student Survey ratings ("Probe ordered into 'manipulation'", 28 February...