Cold spots to gain higher education centres
Labour vows to 'unlock talent' by creating 20 new sites and 10,000 places in six years, writes John Gill
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'High-handed' approach to dispute under fire
An academic expert in industrial relations at Keele University's School of Economic and Management Studies has criticised the way the university's managers are handling the dispute over job losses at...
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Working with administrative staff
Encouraging fellow academics to remember that administrative staff are colleagues worthy of support and respect
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Helping students achieve first-class work
High achievers are made more often than born, and lecturers can support and stretch students to enable them to hit the top target
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Top 10 researchers in psychiatry and psychology based on total citations
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
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Let the students speak!
"Absolutely brilliant." "What a wonderful place." "Such a caring institution." "It's been fabulous." "My kind of campus." "Beyond my wildest dreams."
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The prandial is political
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto lauds the world's soul foods, and killjoys be damned
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Leader - These are the good old days
After a late 20th-century famine, UK universities are in relative good health - but Whitehall's decision to start preparing for an uncertain future is prudent
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University of Oxford - Ban on animal activists rejected
Animal rights activists will continue to be allowed to protest outside graduation ceremonies at the University of Oxford. The university had sought an order for an "exclusion zone" from the High...
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IP's bottom-line gains may be fleeting
Some of the arguments in your very useful survey of opinion on the scope for universities to generate income by licensing patented intellectual property ("A penny for your thoughts", 28 February)...
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Citation pitfalls ahead
Charles Oppenheim (Letters, 21 February) says previous studies "have shown excellent correlations between research assessment exercise scores and citation studies and therefore indicate citation...
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Non-STEM Nomenclature 1
In the debate about research assessment exercise/research excellence framework systems, it has become prevalent for "STEM" and "non-STEM" to be the rhetoric of the day. What is clearly needed is a...
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Non-STEM Nomeclature 2
As an economist, I suppose I am a non-STEMMER. But with the increasingly frequent use of the terms STEM and non-STEM in policy circles, I worry about my discipline's legitimacy. What we need is a...
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Unmet pay needs
I cannot speak for every lecturer at London Metropolitan University, but I doubt that any of them have been calling for the Higher Education Council for England to claw back money, given the blows to...