This year, the graduate job market in Japan is the worst on record. That's the nature of records, of course: they keep being broken. But since the records only began in 1994, it's not that unusual...
University of HullSteven ErsserOne of the first academics to hold a chair in dermatology care has been appointed professor of nursing and dermatology care and dean of the Faculty of Health and Social...
Political schooling
A postdoctoral position was once the passport to a research post for life. But the inexorable growth in numbers of postdoctoral researchers means competition for academic careers is fierce. Paul Jump...
The narrow focus of 'profane' media studies on semiotics and consumption ignores the extent to which culture is rooted in our deep yearning for the sacred, argues Eduardo de la Fuente
During the Commons debate on human trafficking on 18 May 2011, Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham, quoting from the list of essay titles for an academic political theory course at the London School of...
We must hope that the unfair and useless response of hitting the students through strikes and assessment boycotts, trotted out by the sample of University and College Union presidents and chairs in...
As a card-carrying member of the attention-deficit generation, at least as far as novels are concerned, the article by Valerie Sanders ("Docked tales", 26 May) reinforced a long-held view about...
Are others as concerned as I am about the anonymity of reporting on manuscript submissions to publishers and applications to funding bodies? Some of us may be somewhat protected by longevity, if...
I read with interest your article "School swallows merger medicine" (19 May).Staff who voted against the proposal to merge the School of Pharmacy with University College London do well to be wary....
Nearly 4,000 signatories have backed a petition calling on the Arts and Humanities Research Council to remove the "Big Society" from its Delivery Plan for strategic research funding with immediate...
Tim Luckhurst seems to miss the distinction between self-publishing and self-financed publishing ("Everyman's library of failure", 26 May).Both can be good ways of reaching small, specialist...
Nicholas Beyts clearly made a strong impression on your letters editor, to the extent that his missive about students and parents becoming shareholders in the academy ("A share of learning", 12 May)...
As the government continues to cast around for ideas to rescue its floundering plans for higher education, I am surprised it has not spotted the obvious solution: let the GPs sort it out. If they can...
I was flicking through the magazine when I came across what seemed to be a new sex advice column. For there, in bold type, it said: "Keep it up with the help of a yearly check" (26 May).I read on but...