Chaos and isolation: the injustice of suspension
Stuart Macdonald on the misery of being expelled from your university post
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Kardashian Index: the academics famous just for being famous
Ranking reveals the scholars whose social media profile exceeds their academic credentials
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All together now: higher education and the cooperative model
Could organising universities in a different way ease institutions’ financial woes and bring about greater democracy?
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World in brief - 14 August 2014
PolandReforms target jobs and business linksPolish minister of science and higher education, Lena Kolarska-Bobinska, has announced a major revision to higher education legislation with the aim of...
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Grant winners - 14 August 2014
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Vladimir MarkovicInstitution: University of CambridgeDynamics and...
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James MacGregor Burns, 1918-2014
A political scientist who was a pioneer in the field of leadership studies has died
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Q&A with Alison Wheaton
We speak to the CEO of GSM London (formerly Greenwich School of Management)
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Appointments - 14 August 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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The empire strikes back
Tempting as it might be to take advantage of the marketing opportunities available by associating Darth Vader with the University of Leicester as ߣߣƵ suggests (Week in Higher...
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Enhancement achievements
As the authors of the report on the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s role in teaching enhancement, we were disappointed that your article concentrated only on the weaknesses of the...
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Grade variation
Victoria Halman is right to highlight the differences in the distribution of classifications between subjects (“Marked differences”, News, 31 July). However, she might have also pointed to the...
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Missing core of science
Tim Birkhead and Bob Montgomerie mostly blame school science teaching for an increase in scientific fraud (“School for scandal”, Features, 7 August). They correctly determine that fact-based teaching...
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Crushed by debt burden
The human wrecking ball David Willetts is lobbying for universities to “buy” student loan debt (“Willetts’ loan book plan: capital idea or half-baked notion?”, News, 7 August) and wants the...
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Tips for longevity
Your article “Turnitin ‘nears end of charmed life’ amid complaints over cost” (News, 31 July) might be because Turnitin has diversified from being a focused plagiarism detection service to become a...