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Traumatic evidence scars American football and its fans

Is the tide about to turn on the college sport?, ask Daniel Goldberg and Robert Lee Maril

The week in higher education - 22 January 2015

The Sunday Times quoted Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow universities, science and skills minister, as saying that “the right long-term shift is to a graduate tax” on 18 January. But the newspaper said...

UK can’t afford to fall behind

Countries worldwide are investing to get ahead in the global game of research. Not doing so will cost the UK dear

Nuts in May?

Source: Getty‘Neutralising the threat’“I haven’t yet heard from Theresa May, but I’m confident that she will regard my proposal as a positive contribution.”That was how Geraldine Transept, our Head...

Grant winners - 22 January 2015

German Academic Exchange ServiceProject Funding: Promoting German Studies in the UKAward winners: Erica Carter, Chris ����Vlogwood, Annie Ring, Claudia Sandberg and Alexandra PontzenInstitutions: King’s...

Definition of the mission

In Bahram Bekhradnia’s argument for making higher education less dependent on the market and instead providing more financial support through taxpayers (“Step back to look ahead”, Opinion, 15 January...

The USS: fact and fiction

We write as representatives of the Left on the ����Vlog Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members’ pensions. We...

REF analysis: looking beyond boundaries

We would like to provide amendments to Adam Crawford’s analysis of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account awards and research excellence framework outcomes (“REF...

Correction to Hesa figures

I represent the department of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and I write to correct the published scores for my department in your subject rankings of research intensity (“The race is...

To know the difference

John Shand’s review of my book Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be (Books, 8 January) grotesquely misrepresents what the book is about.He says I hold that “the theoretical problems of...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 22 January 2015

PGCE retains status after coalition split

Recommendation in report on teacher training appeared to downgrade the value of postgraduate qualifications

New Scottish education secretary sets out priorities

Angela Constance urges universities to take the lead on access as she decries principals’ pay rises and confirms talks on post-study work visa

Merger is ‘bad news for universities’, say librarians

Journal prices could rise further if Springer-Macmillan deal goes ahead, some fear

Ronnie Fraser settles ‘anti-Semitism’ case costs row

Lecturer agrees an out-of-court settlement after the UCU sought to reclaim its legal costs