Expert advice to help academics set up a spin-off company is offered in a new book by a professor and businessman. The guide, Spin-outs: Creating Businesses from University Intellectual Property, was...
While Michael Worton and the European Science Foundation (ESF) talk until they are "blue in the face" to convince us of the virtues of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), they are...
While English-language universities on the Continent represent additional competition for British universities and private educators of international students, these offshore programmes ignore one of...
Your recent article about student experience fails to acknowledge one of the largest student groups in UK higher education, namely part-time students ("Happy to be here", 15 January).With more than...
When it comes to Cardinal Newman, Gary Day gives us neither "knowledge" nor "information" ("Get wise to the product", 22 January).Newman didn't coin the expression "knowledge for its own sake" and...
Jocelyn Prudence's latest attack on the University and College Union simply must be responded to (Letters, 22 January). It has taken the Universities and Colleges Employers Association ten months to...
So the same tired old arguments are being raised about the industrial funding of research into novel pharmaceuticals at universities as were common when, working for what was Department of Trade and...
In his recent review of the fifth volume of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (Books, 15 January), Jeffrey Meyers deplores what he calls "the atrocious editing of this volume". Isn't this...
Jeffrey Meyers' review limits itself to glib biographical generalisation, dismissal of the worth of the edition on the basis of occasional errors and omissions and a final dismissal of Katherine...
While we all appreciate that ÌÇÐÄVlog has a well-known blind spot where academic medicine is concerned, it is pushing even that envelope to say that Wendy Hall was the only female...
Roger Brown misjudges the approach of the law and the courts to academic judgment by stating that "in a few years' time, any student who does not get an upper-second degree may take their university...
PhD student Peter Bennett has attracted more than a million YouTube viewers to footage of a musical instrument he has invented. His creation, BeatBearing, uses ball bearings to create different drum...
Authors Will Self and Ian McEwan, historian Simon Schama and broadcaster Joan Bakewell are among those taking part in this year's Spring Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. Acclaimed...
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have (ADHD) serious problems with short-term memory, which may explain their poor attention, according to research by academics from the...
A new £8 million business and law building has been opened at Edge Hill University. The addition to the Ormskirk campus, described by the university as "cutting edge", will house several departments...