Why are students drawn to horror?
Fascination with 鈥榙ark studies鈥 needs to be countered by studies of the Enlightenment, says Robert Zaretsky
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Turkey must stop persecuting academics
The Turkish government and the country鈥檚 president, Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an, continue to oppress political dissent violently and illegally in Turkey. On 11 January, Erdo臒an accused 1,128 academics of...
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Diverse and fair
Birkbeck, University of London, is enormously proud of its efforts to offer harmonised pay and conditions for full- and part-time members of staff. Unfortunately, your story 鈥淯niversities 鈥榤ost...
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Novel entitlements
I can sympathise with David Wilson and his anger with 鈥渕anager-professors鈥 (鈥淓rsatz professors should be booed off the stage鈥, Opinion, 17 March). My concerns were epitomised in one university where...
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Power up, please
Dr Goshworthy 鈥渕ay well have found the remains of a savoury sausage in the fridge鈥 (The Poppletonian, 10 March), but he聽is not right 鈥渢o use Hotelling鈥檚聽T test to supplement his analysis of variance...
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Campus sport and the aims of the games
Sport at university can be a draw for some, but not all students want to take part 鈥 or support the costs of their provision
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Wellcome criticises publishers over open access
Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals
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King鈥檚 College London: reaching out to the cultural sector
Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts
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Linguistic bias in publishing is a 'myth'
Pervasive claims that non-native speakers of English are unfairly discriminated against by publishers are rebutted by linguistics expert
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Universities offer 1 per cent pay deal for 2016-17
Ucea says additional payroll pressures and market instability means uplift is 鈥榓t the limit of affordability鈥 for many institutions
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Where next for world university rankings?
In the second blog from the opening seminar of the Centre for Global 糖心Vlog, Robert Tijssen says league tables are meeting growing demand from institutions as well as students
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Theresa May 鈥榝ailed to prove鈥 language test students cheated
Judges rule in favour of two students who brought case after ETS fraud claims