Last week I gave a one-hour talk at a British university. To be paid for my time, I have to complete six separate forms and take my passport in person back to the university, some 60 miles from where...
Coming from a commercial background into higher education, the ongoing argument about impact reminds me of similar ones about profit ("REF rivals square off over value of impact proposal", 10...
Martin Cohen's article "Beyond debate?" (10 December) deserves some comment. The author's logic and judgment of things scientific can be read from his comment: "how rational is it to pass laws...
I would ask the politicians queuing up to criticise University of East Anglia scientists in the wake of the "Climategate" incident to take a long, hard look in the mirror before proceeding further...
Elizabeth Hoult is quite right to argue that learning needs to be reconceptualised in order for all students to gain the best possible experience ("Let feminine side of learning thrive", 10 December...
Your excellent piece on teaching rewards is both timely and useful ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December). Clearly, very few academics would challenge the fact that good-quality...
"The mythbuster", your article on Mary Heimann's new book about 20th-century Czechoslovakia, itself contains myths (3 December). From it, readers may assume that since 1978 there has been no work by...
According to Edward Dutton, one of the many good qualities of higher education in Finland is the fact that it is still free ("Finns, they are a-changin'", 10 December). Sadly, there never has been...
Oh dear. In the book review "Out of nowhere into the limelight" (12 November), Natalie Gold claims that: "In Economics Is a Serious Subject (1932), (Joan Robinson) argued that economists should use...
Labour wants to make public bodies more representative, and Eileen Kaner is an ideal ambassador for the push
An academic who has contributed to investigations of major oil industry disasters - including the fire on the Piper Alpha rig in the North Sea that killed more than 100 people in 1988 - has been made...
Leaks reveal examples of senior staff breaking the university's financial rules. Melanie Newman writes
Hallucinogenic mushrooms may be responsible for the myth that Father Christmas was pulled through the air by reindeer. National experts on mushrooms, mythology and the environment met at Sheffield...
An academic has urged people to curb the number of Christmas presents they buy. In a lecture at the London School of Economics, Joel Waldfogel, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the US...
The Christmas carol While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night was originally sung to a different tune, research suggests. The traditional song once had the same melody used for the Yorkshire...