The week in higher education
• An archaeological dig by university researchers in a council car park has apparently uncovered the skeleton of Richard III, The Daily Telegraph reported on 13 September. Academics from the...
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Leader: No one is escaping the mire
With student admissions down 54,000 on last year, even elite institutions are facing severe financial hardship
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From Where I Sit - Dissociated thought, bloody act
On a recent visit to Bergen in Norway, it was raining and, gloomily, everything on the menu was fish. The Anders Behring Breivik trial was coming to a close in Oslo yet you couldn't get it on the...
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Odds and quads
This sculpture of a "terror bird", with painted polystyrene eye, can be found in the Alfred Denny Museum at the University of Sheffield.
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Appointments
University of the West of EnglandGabriel ScallyThe new director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England said he...
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That's entertainment?
No stranger to broadcasting himself, Christopher Bigsby considers the rise of the public intellectual - halfway up a mountain, on a motorbike, quoting Aeschylus, coming to a telly near you
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20 September 2012
Weight of numbers - The burden of too much bureaucratic information
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Thresholds
Merseyside is the perfect setting for an exhibition that explores departure points, national identity and the fluid nature of ‘British art’, finds Alexander Massouras
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Number crunching
Simeon Underwood argues that the data requirements imposed on universities have got out of hand - and there's no let-up in sight
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Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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Peer and present dangers (1 of 3)
I agree entirely with Stephen Mumford's timely critique of the peer-review process for academic journals and the system's lack of transparency ("Peer pressure", Opinion, 13 September).I have been...
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Peer and present dangers (2 of 3)
"Peer pressure" struck a chord with me. While colleagues in the academy increasingly find themselves with diverse and complex workloads to manage, professionalism and respect for peers should...
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Peer and present dangers (3 of 3)
Editors and publishers do take steps to drop reviewers who are abusive, inaccurate or cursory in their work. However, we are often faced with the fact that almost any review is better than nothing....
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Ends and meanings (1 of 2)
The trouble with Martin Willis' admirable feature "Curiosity knows no bounds" (13 September) is that there is a flaw at the heart of his argument. Yes, the sciences and humanities share a motivation...
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Ends and meanings (2 of 2)
Martin Willis' defence of the humanities in the face of the current political bias towards the sciences was eloquent, impassioned and timely. I was puzzled, though, by his stated regret that the...