Private positives
I would argue that the disappointing letter “Private ventures ripe for failure” (28 July) is backwards-looking and self-protectionist. It is an unreasoned attack on the alternative provider sector in...
I would argue that the disappointing letter “Private ventures ripe for failure” (28 July) is backwards-looking and self-protectionist. It is an unreasoned attack on the alternative provider sector in...
Re “The vocational alternative: a definitive opportunity for universities?” (31 July) How often do we have to read of universities’ failure to “equip” young people for work when their brief is to “...
Academic writing is an easy target: there’s so much of it, and not all of it is good. Understanding and detailing good practice is much harder to do. Zachary Foster’s list of bad writing tics (“How...

Unease over the suggestion to tie work to universities overlooks the reality that the REF is an institutional review

Calie Pistorius, who has led the institution for just under a decade, is looking forward to his ‘next opportunity and role’

A new book by Bruno Lemaitre considers whether science is suffering from being led by the self-obsessed

An academic described as a ‘giant in theoretical physics’ has died

We talk gangsters, London crime and dodging punches with the noted ethnographer

Vice-chancellor predicts that sector’s ‘slightly snobbish’ attitude will be swiftly eroded

Academics and administrators can learn to cooperate better if they are willing to acknowledge their stereotypes about each other

Matthew Reisz wanders down some of the odder byways of the university scene

The tricks and teases academics use to entice their readers: clichés, the Bard and the phrases of the moment

John Denham, former secretary of state for universities, innovation and skills, on the case for rethinking the supply-side strategy