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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 7 May 2015

Living costs hurt most

The story “£6K fee choices: Film, not finance” (News in brief, 30 April) suggests that about 40 per cent of university applicants might select a different course if fees are lowered.Tuition fees are...

Stone-cold loser

Rachel Carey’s choice of William Stoner as an example of an academic who might not survive in academia today (“An examined life”, Opinion, 30 April) is unfortunate, because he was a failure in nearly...

Pension adjustment period

We write with reference to the consultation regarding the proposed closure of the Universities Superannuation Scheme’s final salary scheme. We suggest that the current timescales do not represent an...

Piercy’s attack is off track

Nigel Piercy’s recently reported personal insults about trade unionists seem designed primarily to court controversy and thereby attract publicity.We have, of course, been here before with Piercy’s...

Headline blues

Your Careers Intelligence piece about getting media exposure for one’s scholarly research (“Don’t bore us – get to the chorus”, 30 April) is right about the “thrill” of seeing one’s research getting...

See-through review

David Colquhoun’s letter “Pressured peers” (30 April) discussed peer review and some of the reasons why the practice is flawed.PeerJ has been tackling some of the problematic issues of peer review...

Stand and deliver

Shahidha Bari should count herself lucky that she has an office so that she can pursue her job in quiet and privacy (“Give me room to breathe”, Opinion, 16 April). I have heard on the grapevine that...

Accounting by Aslan

Your financial health check of universities (“Keep squirrelling away the nuts”, Features, 30 April) showed that the sector reported net assets “excluding pension liabilities” of an impressive £40...

QR funding: 10 campuses in the south to get more than £2K per student

Ten research-intensive universities in the South of England will get more than £2,000 each year in quality-related research funding for every student at the institution, an analysis has shown

Appealed QAA review of Southampton stays secret after all

Critics cry ‘cop-out’ over decision on publishing report

Campus media teams reveal strange requests

Scholars have asked university communications departments to publicise their birthdays and businesses as well as academic conferences

European universities ‘hobbled’ by language laws

Rector at Maastricht University fears that curbs on using English are preventing some institutions from innovating and internationalising

QAA upholds two out of six concerns about St Patrick’s

Watchdog finds reports of fighting in classroom at private provider and sets six-week deadline for action plan

UCS sets 2020 goal to achieve gender balance

Provost says university’s size will help it hit a ‘moral’ target of 50 per cent women across its professoriate and board