Greater efficiency would help cover pensions liabilities
Universities should emulate the private sector in a positive way by eliminating costly duplication, says a worker in professional services
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Elite university intakes ‘as imbalanced as poor nations on income’
New Hepi paper that ranks universities on intake equality illustrates gulf between some Russell Group universities and others
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UKRI criticised for appointing all-white research council boards
Just five out of 57 appointed members are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds
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Clothes do not make the woman: what female academics wear is subject to constant scrutiny
Women and their clothing are scrutinised more closely because men are seen as the norm in academia. Emma Rees considers the codes at play in what is supposedly a radical space
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The Unmasking of English Dictionaries by R. M. W. Dixon
Lynda Mugglestone ponders what Dr Johnson might have made of an exposé of philologists’ limitations
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Supply, demand and other funding calculations
Universities need to raise funds from potentially mercurial financial markets without losing sight of their long-term missions. It’s a delicate balance
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Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions, by Christopher G. White
Simon Young finds much to admire in an attempt to explain the history of a seemingly impossible idea
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Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters
Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley
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New and noteworthy – 5 April 2018
The case against men (16th-century-style); going to El Norte, and staying behind; glorying in Gorey; and saving Venice
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The week in higher education – 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Student voice is nowhere near overpowering
In a recent opinion article, Nick Hillman asked, “Is the voice of students’ unions too powerful?” (26 March). Of course there should be a discussion about the role of students and students’ unions in...
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Valuation vexation
In “USS strike: why I won’t join the pensions strike” (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper, Security and...
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No star ratings
Cathy Shrank is right to take the universities minister, Sam Gyimah, to task over his plans to introduce consumer-style ratings for degree courses, but I’m not sure she goes far enough (“...