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Medics happiest with colleagues

Academics working in medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry are more likely to enjoy working with their colleagues than those working in the arts and humanities

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 17 July 2014

Starter for £10K

I note that it is possible that the salaries of the most highly paid academics may be revealed (“High-earner salaries may be disclosed”, News, 10 July).Surely once achieved, those with the highest...

TOEFL: tried and tested

I read with interest Karen Harris’ article “Degree-level study without language competency is absurd” (Opinion, 3 July).Harris incorrectly identifies which English language test featured in a recent...

Stand with Docherty

There has been a series of comments in THE since March about the situation of Thomas Docherty, a professor suspended by the University of Warwick. The comments have been elliptical, because it...

Boardroom imbalance

The news that Wendy Purcell has been put on leave by Plymouth University’s board of governors is distressing. She has both a national and an international profile and is one of a small cadre of...

Turn page on prospectuses

Jan Čulik bemoans the tendency of managerialism to stifle eclectic scholarship in the name of practicality and short-term impact, and asks what we might do about it (“Named but not shamed”, Letters,...

There is such a thing as bad publicity

On the morning of the publication of last week’s ����Vlog issue containing an article about the allegedly overly aggressive style of management at Swansea University’s School of...

The week in higher education - 17 July 2014

One of David Willetts’ final acts as universities and science minister last week was to express “confidence” in the chairman of the Student Loans Company after he offered to resign over graduates...

University of Liverpool staff to lose pay if online students drop out

Academic claims that pay would be deducted even if students quit Liverpool-Laureate course because of bereavement

Outreach activity ramped up at dawn of £9,000 fees

Les Ebdon claims fee level has not put off poor students as spending to attract them climbs and admissions rise

He’s got an analogy!

“A Daniel come to judgement.”That was how Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, responded to the recent declaration by David Browne, an associate in the solicitors’ firm that advises the...

17 July 2014

Summer reads - THE contributors pick out the books they’ll be packing in their suitcases

Snowball Metrics: no pinch of salt needed

John Green is the man behind a researcher-led effort to cook up sound institutional comparisons

Glyndwr planted the seeds of its financial woe some time ago

String of poor decisions preceded suspension of highly trusted status