Who got that cash?
Academics at Nottingham Trent University will address the declining popularity of science subjects at a new centre of excellence, where staff will examine how science subjects are taught from primary...
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Local deal divides staff
Bournemouth's move away from the national contract must be resisted, the UCU says. Melanie Newman reports One in six of academic staff at Bournemouth University is now on a local contract, which...
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Runaway tips
Pity Steve Avil, senior lecturer in podiatry at Northampton University, and his team of staff and students who arguably had the most gruelling time at the London Marathon. They treated injuries...
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Courses fit for Queen's
University refectories are not generally known for the quality of their food, but Queen's University Belfast has opened a new bar and grill in a venture with Michelin-starred chef Michael Deane....
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Communication breakdown
One would expect universities to be at the cutting edge of communications technology. But when Peep tried to get in touch with the press communications team at London South Bank University this week...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Psychological testing for university posts is here to stay" - The Times Higher, April 20. Now, then Mr Craddock, I'd like you to sit down over here at the desk. That's right. Are you quite...
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Leader: Cautionary tale of two workforces
Bournemouth University's contract with new staff is scarcely a tyrant's charter. But removing study leave and potentially making staff do more than 18 hours a week of teaching mean that Bournemouth...
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Leader: A title worth aspiring to
As elite clubs go, the British professoriate has never lacked exclusivity. But news that the number has grown in absolute terms and as a proportion of total academic staff should not be seen as a...
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Support, don't scorn Israel exiles
The criticism of Ilan Pappe by David Hirsh and Richard Millett (Letters, April 13) is wholly unwarranted. If, as Hirsh says, Pappe "was not successful in building an academic or a political movement...
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Anonymous insult
The letter about fourth-rate university administrators (April 20) was ignorant and insulting in equal measure and unworthy of a reply. What concerns me is that it was printed anonymously. Printing...
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Media quick fixes 1
A further problem with the lack of academics appearing as intellectuals in public view in the UK ("Academics told to push intellectual credentials", April 13) is the laziness of the television and...
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Media quick fixes 2
A. C. Grayling is expressing what many must think but do not hear often enough ("'I'm right.' 'You're not'", Features, April 20). Media reports are too often what he calls "eristic", merely an...
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Reflections on mirror
John Gribbin attributes to Victor J. Stenger the speculation that "there should be a mirror universe expanding in the opposite direction of time on the other side of the Big Bang", in his review of...
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What's really at steak
Has David Nibert never been in a field (Opinions, April 20)? The arguments he presents against eating meat relate to cheap US-style hamburgers, and I could not agree more that we should stop eating...
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Official criteria
It is indeed salutary to learn in "UK-style RAE taken on by Italy" (April 13) that officials will be barred from holding a post in a university or research institute. But to be able to "reward only...