Student survey rates teaching qualifications above research activity
Hepi/HEA Student Academic Experience Survey results may intensify pressure on staff to gain formal accreditation
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2020 education export target will ‘need teamwork’
Hepi head says £30bn export aim achievable only with cross-government effort
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The week in higher education – 4 June 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Coming to a campus near you
From senior appointments to student surveys, pedagogy is again centre stage – and waiting in the wings is a teaching REF
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 4 June 2015
Jorge Cham draws comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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The campus manager: friend or foe?
Laurie Taylor and Simeon Underwood offer some helpful insights into the current antipathy between academics and university managers (“Keeping the peace”, Features, 28 May). Underwood is right to...
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Peer review not yet sunk
Richard Smith says that when he was editor of the British Medical Journal, he deliberately inserted eight errors into a paper and sent it to 300 reviewers. None of them spotted more than five errors...
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Students, then salaries
The comments regarding the two-tier pay structure at the London School of Economics made by Indi Seehra, director of human resources, omit the fact that it is students’ money that is propping up the...
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The art of persuasion
Diana Beech wants “to see fairness, equality and justice prevail in any policies governing” her country. And then she voted Tory (“Attitude is everything”, Opinion, 21 May). To base one’s voting on...
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New PhDs losing the plot
The feature on a new style for PhD theses struck an uncomfortable note (“Last era’s model”, 21 May). A couple of weeks ago, I examined one such thesis consisting of introduction and conclusions...
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Universities UK confirms opposition to Israel boycott
Universities have confirmed their opposition to any academic boycott of Israel following votes by student and lecturer groups in favour of sanctions.
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Government urged to invest more in science
The UK needs to stop using greater efficiency in research as justification for funding cuts, a vice-chancellor and ex-research council head has said.
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David Willetts: allow student loans to be used abroad
The government should lift restrictions to allow British students to use state loans for fees abroad, the former universities minister has claimed