Don't do as we do
John Wakeford (Letters, September 3) is right to point out that plagiarism isn't confined to undergraduates. The online guidelines for essay writing produced by the School of Art History and...
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Cost of knowledge
What goes around comes around. Almost 30 years ago, while seconded to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, I devised an approach that resembles what became known as activity-based...
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Fair play on fair pay? 1
I normally have no objection to league tables where City University is in the top group, such as yours on average academic salaries (News, September 3). If this is true I am pleased - high performers...
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Fair play on fair pay? 2
Could the explanation for the gender inequalities in higher education pay and the wider human-resource malpractices described by Peter Nolan (Soapbox, September 3) possibly lie in the proposed pay...
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Best-practice policy
You say that I have criticised my university's policy on the admission of disabled students ("Middlesex disability policy is censured", August ). This is not true. I have never criticised our policy...
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Bucks fuzzy
Alan Smithers (Letters, September 3) has a fuzzy view of psychology. I too am a chartered psychologist who first earned his living as a research scientist. When I moved to research on human life, I...
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Essential research
Your note about the regulations for degree-awarding powers and university title perpetuates a confusion ("Title up for grabs", August ). You say that for the title of university "institutions will...
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Complaints explained
Gillian Evans has it wrong (Letters, September 3). The Higher Education Act creates one new system, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, to deal with all types of student...
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Hey, this new drug - it's to die for...
When raw data contradict the published 'findings' on a new drug, it is time to review clinical trials, argues David Healy. Readers opening an issue of any major medical journal are likely to be faced...
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Mamma Mia! How could you resist this rendezvous?
Heavy on policy and light on UK attendance, the first Euroscience Open Forum Conference was never-theless a success, says Pete Wrobe. Whether it was a wish for somewhere hotter and drier in August or...
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Young losers in the generation game
Are the short-term contracts and poor pay suffered by most junior academics driving a wedge between them and senior staff? Chris Bunting reports. For 12 years since finishing his PhD at Birmingham...
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Resourceful Asian seeks partner with money
A rich repository of South Asian culture needs a backer, but universities, though an ideal match, lack the funds, says Sara Wajid. Partnerships between independent archives and universities are like...
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I like a cruise with strings attached
His historical expertise afforded Richard Evans a ticket to a music-filled trip down the Danube. His diary concludes our series on cultural tourism. Simon Schama gives his lectures on the QEII ; I do...
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Today's news
Tories: it's sink or swim for universities Universities will be left to sink or swim under Conservative Party plans for a market where students hold the purse strings and there is no financial safety...
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Latest research news
Genesis propbe to return its Sun cargo The Genesis probe, which left Earth in 2001 to gather particles blown off the Sun, returns its cargo on Wednesday. It will eject a capsule that will enter Earth...