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Watching but also discerning

Universities collecting data to monitor performance must be transparent and in sync with academic work and goals

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 23 October 2014

Take a cold shower

The suggestion made by two University of East Anglia students that urinating while showering could result in huge water savings (“The week in higher education”, News, 16 October) may have health...

Knowing their limits

In response to Bruce Macfarlane’s piece (“If not now, when?”, Opinion, 16 October), I come from Hong Kong, and am now living in England. I’m one of the privileged who can immigrate.People in the West...

Sociologists everywhere

Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald’s argument that the social sciences need a shake-up (“Time for a makeover?”, Features, 9 October) seems to have overlooked the fact that social scientists are often...

Who is the priority?

As a student at the University of Essex, I’ve had the pleasure of being mentored by Marina Warner, Glyn Maxwell and Derek Walcott. Statements from the university that portray students’ education and...

False assumptions of the USS

Last week, the Employers Pension Forum published “Proposed Changes to USS – Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings”. The document contains misinformation and a mistake. We focus on the section “...

Support levels diverge between post-1992s and Russell Group

Students at post-1992 institutions will receive just a quarter of the help offered by older universities

Liberal arts builds momentum in the UK

Symposium hears of efforts to build broad-based humanities study on British soil

Campus close-up: Institute of Cancer Research

Putting industry collaboration at the heart of its mission helps the ICR to commercial and scholarly success

Doctor Who and the portfolio career

Kevin Fong advises academics to scale the silo walls occasionally to regenerate their careers

Why philanthropy merits scholarly study

As giving grows in importance, universities need to engage seriously with the topic, says Charles Keidan

Big brother in the academy

As monitoring of scholars’ performance, time and output increases, so do reservations about its value and effectiveness

Peter Piot: there is a ‘moral responsibility’ to go out and stop Ebola

The man who helped to identify the virus has encouraged staff and students to volunteer

Future of teacher training under threat

Anglia Ruskin latest to drop out as policy continues to favour school-led system