Mistakes found in paper that identified retraction-error link
Despite the ironic slips, article sheds light on how journals can tackle flawed science
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Grant winners 鈥撀8 October 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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The week in higher education 鈥 8 October 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat 鈥 the academy through the lens of the national press
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Odds are good for HE legislation, but don鈥檛 count your chickens
Hanging too many measures on a bill can cause it to topple over, argues Nick Hillman
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Why you shouldn鈥檛 go on holiday with an academic
There鈥檚 no rest for the lifelong learning brigade, says Shahidha Bari
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 8 October 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Happy to make some changes
While one cannot but applaud 鈥渃hange initiatives鈥 of the kind described by Steve Olivier, deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at Abertay University, it is inaccurate to view 鈥渕ost universities as...
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Admit the problems
Zahir Irani exposes the multitude of problems with our admissions service (鈥淎 changing game: the need to rethink student admissions鈥, 2 October). The removal of student number controls is sending...
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Playing to hype
Reading Michelle Morgan鈥檚 letter made me think about those naive shopper-undergraduates and the role of guides and ranking tables as they make their otherwise uninformed choice (鈥淢arketing failures...
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Healthy equality
Victoria Bateman identifies economics as sexist (鈥淚s economics a sexist science?鈥, Opinion, 15 September). That may be true of mainstream economics, but it is certainly not true of the field that we...
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Knowledge porridge
That subject knowledge itself is not even mentioned among 鈥淲hat students prize about UK higher education 鈥 (News, 1 October) caused us almost to choke on our breakfast. Has university become purely...