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Letters
Pros and cons of the metrics systemThe main problem with the research excellence framework is the huge amount of time and money that it consumes, distracting academics from scholarly activities and...
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Laurie Taylor
‘Lend me your ears shock’One of our leading psychologists, Dr Fritz Itzig, is currently languishing in a police cell after a day-long series of attempts to increase the research impact of his work on...
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Sick notes and shadowy scapegoats: the excuses academics use to explain away fraudulent research results
Tales of academics using imaginary collaborators to explain away dodgy research results and fabricating life-threatening diseases to avoid investigation formed some of the most memorable moments of...
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Misconduct under the microscope
Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, conference hears. Elizabeth Gibney reports from Montreal
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‘Bash down the door’ to reach funding coffers
Universities that are looking for more capital funding need to present clearer cases to government for how they would use the money, a senior higher education official has said.David Sweeney,...
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Scholars in a suitcase turn off Chinese
Students dissatisfied with contact hours, QAA overseas provision review shows. Jack Grove writes
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UCU Left wants growth but NEC backs austerity
Arguments intensify over union’s austerity plans in run-up to congress. Jack Grove reports
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Continuing missions: to explore postgrad worlds
Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found.Those from Million+ and University Alliance...
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Whale of an evolutionary time
Patricia Piccinini’s Sky Whale, created by Cameron Balloons in Bristol, was inspired by the artist’s reflections on evolution.Although their ancestors had left the seas, mammals later “returned” to...
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UUK strives to avoid science/social spending dilemma
UUK aims to defend science and social mobility funds from spending review. John Morgan writes
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Great and good reject journal impact factor
The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in funding, appointment and promotion decisions to be...
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Clever accounting: our gift to the world
Willetts adviser says coalition approach to finance may shape global academy. John Morgan reports
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Clocking off early
The Quality Assurance Agency is to issue new guidance on student workloads after research found that English undergraduates study for only three-quarters of the hours it recommends.A report by the...
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Titanic victory
Russell Group member is first to successfully appeal against full QAA review. Jack Grove reports