Phantom menace
How refreshing to read in a serious journal a proper account of poltergeist and other paranormal phenomena (“Schools that have ghouls”, Features, 30 October).The author, Richard Sugg, starts with the...
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V-c was here
During the Second World War, the village of Simpson (now part of Milton Keynes) was home to a number of workers from nearby Bletchley Park. Local history research has identified that, for well over a...
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Recognition and reward
We applaud the advice from Annette Cashmore for those seeking promotion based on teaching (“If they like your lectures, don’t keep it to yourself”, Careers Intelligence, 6 November).A recent study by...
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New branch for humanities
Like Sarah Churchwell (“Humanities: why the study of human culture still matters”, Opinion, 13 November), I am not immune to the appeal of a good read from within the literature’s considerable...
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Plotting happy endings
As a lecturer and higher education programme leader in a further education college, I agree with Kevin Orr when he says that HE in FE can “change lives” (“HE in FE: truths and illusions”, News, 20...
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Interrogating the anti-terrorism bill
The government’s proposed statutory duty on universities in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill will require universities to “have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into...
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The week in higher education - 4 December 2014
For all the public assurances that the merger between University College London and the Institute of Education, University of London was a coming-together of equals, some IoE resistance fighters have...
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Failing to look, listen or legislate
An OMG moment is predicted for whoever wins the election as politicians address lapses in oversight and funding challenges
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A most unequal match
Source: AlamySchoolgirl errors?One of our leading pro vice-chancellors, Dr Janet Balsam, has denounced the “naive and immature” portrait of higher education recently articulated by Toni Pearce,...
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Academics label proposed Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill ‘censorship’
University leaders and lecturers fear for freedom of speech under proposed anti-extremism legislation
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Student vote could topple Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam
Hepi report predicts that the student vote could swing the advantage to Labour at the general election
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Exiting the academy: what professors did next
About 13 per cent of academics who left their higher education institution between 2011-12 and 2012-13 joined the private sector
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Discovery and impact: no conflict in twin aims, EPSRC chief insists
Controversial capabilities policy retained as one of three strands in research council’s new plan
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Loss of teacher training places is hurting schools, says vice-chancellor
University of Cumbria’s Peter Strike also estimates that changes to allocations have cost it £2.1m in income