Willem or Dafoe? A roll call to remember
Kate MacDonald reflects on playing the student name game in the Belgian academy
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Zygmunt Bauman accused of serial ‘self-plagiarism’
Eminent sociologist has recycled 90,000 words of material across a dozen books, claims paper
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Unlimited recruitment: a poachers’ charter?
The full impact of the abolition of the cap on student numbers won’t be felt immediately, suggests Emran Mian
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Exam board blues: are universities the answer?
As ministers and schools lose patience with GCSE and A-level grade and fee inflation, Louis Goddard looks to the past for new solutions
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Russell Group universities ‘unfairly rejecting ethnic minority students’
Study suggests BME students could be missing out on places because institutions are trying to shape ethnic mix
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Citations? Great. But have you got the ‘t factor’?
Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations
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EU recruitment boom prompts student finance warning
Universities believed to be looking to Continent to make up shortfalls in domestic enrolment
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University staff in London are least happy in work
High costs, long commutes and insecure jobs may explain figures from Best University Workplace Survey 2015
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TEF: to keep it simple would be stupid
The article on staff teaching qualifications suggests that the high number of “unknowns” is an obstacle to the inclusion of this measure in the teaching excellence framework (“Will lack of data on...
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Future-proofing Heythrop
In the weeks since the difficult decision was made that Heythrop College would cease being a constituent college of the University of London in three years, our governors and staff have been...
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Clear up admissions melee
Robert Allison was right to point out in a blog post that the admissions system is confusing and unfair (“Clearing 2015: universities must put students first”, 12 August). As the recruitment cap is...
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A new Dark Age
My flabber was well and truly gasted when I read Sorana Vieru’s views on university education (“Sector ‘stuck in the Middle Ages’”, News, 13 August). In what sense can the university curriculum and...
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What are the chances?
I haven’t read the article in the national press about an Open University algorithm that can forecast a student’s final grade “within just a week of their starting their course” (The week in higher...
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A question of satisfaction
More than 300,000 individuals answering 23 questions, each with five possible responses (“NSS 2015: £9K tuition fees fail to dent satisfaction”, News, 13 August). Yet the Department for Business,...
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Prizes for dismal science
Paul G. Ellis points out that if the award of Nobel prizes this century is quantified per capita, then the US lead over other countries seems rather less impressive (“And the awards go to…”, Letters...