Market forces unleashed on the UK university sector have pushed up senior pay, fuelled the rows over it and posed questions about âvalue for moneyâ that are shaping the future of universities
Andrew McRae explores what effects the value debate could have on the structure of the sector
Revolution in Ukraine; the complexities of judging; international espionage past and present; neurogastronomy; and the surprising longevity of the kibbutz
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Book of the week: Biancamaria Fontana on a masterly defence of the values of modernity against âprogressophobesâ
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
Our annual pay review details v-csâ remuneration, explores the make-up and workings of the governing bodies that set it, and compares the rewards on offer with those of other sectors
With the government launching a review of higher education funding, there has been talk about cutting the tuition fees cap or the interest on student loans. This would be terrible politics and...
In your article âElites âoffer the best maternity provisionââ (News, 8 February), you discuss a paper by Vera Troeger and Mariaelisa Epifanio, which names our university as one that offers no weeks...
In their opinion article âPrints charmingâ (8 February) Al Martinich and Tom Palaima make an important claim that is demonstrably untrue. It is that the building of libraries in the US by the...
In the opinion article âHell hath no furyâŠâ (8 February), an anonymous academic describes the pain and anger that they feel after being wrongly suspended by a manager. I can sympathise with that...
Ken Smith (Letters, 15 February) deduces from Matthew Reiszâs statement that Kori Schake âwas born in Sonoma, California, ânot far from where gold was discovered in 1848ââ, that Schake âwill turn 170...