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Funding black holes

The paradox suggested by Piled Higher and Deeper (21 November), that travelling forward in time to peek at the results of your research would mean the research was never undertaken, is akin to the “...

Moral economy

Robert Colls is right that the 50th anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class deserves to be marked and celebrated (“The Making and the man”, 21...

Dog-eat-dog snarling

The hothouse rivalries and cut-throat competition that typify today’s university surely add fuel to the fire of abusive academic discourse (“Nasty, brutish and short”, 7 November).The struggle for...

Market deficit

The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by ����Vlog in the past two weeks (“Assets, liabilities and old age tensions”, 14 November; “Equity inequities”, 21 ...

Police state actors

We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the arrest of Michael Chessum, president of the University of London Union, for allegedly organising a demonstration apparently contrary to the Public Order...

Humanities in need of wider Horizon 2020

We are deeply concerned by the plans for Horizon 2020, the European Union’s forthcoming seven-year research and innovation programme. The promises made by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, commissioner for...

Never having to say sorry

Should our university be ashamed because it occupies such a lowly rank in the current list of UK universities?That was the question our reporter Keith Ponting (30) put to Deputy Head of Brand...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 28 November 2013

‘Miss’ no hit with illustrious Queen Mary alumna

Inaccurate ‘begging letter’ incenses emeritus professor

EPSRC calls for more CDT cash

Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training

Deloitte maps space in student cribs

The number of purpose-built student bed spaces in each region of the UK in 2013-14, how much they cost on average per week and the number of full-time students in 2011-12 are shown here

Work-to-rule may hit academics in pay packet

Working Time Regulations not as restrictive as UCU thinks, lawyer argues

Unions unite to protest ULU president’s arrest

Open letter from around 100 staff condemns police action

Continuum study to press for solutions to part-time slump

Sector’s report on decline failed to provide answers, says UEL centre’s director John Storan

Russell Group enrolments vary widely across London

Discrepancies not fully explained by attainment levels, report finds