Unsung classics
I was very glad to see Emma Gee raise the issue of the translation of Classics and its scholarly nature and potential to engage the public (āClassicsā elitism should be lost in translationā, 17 March...
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OU soul-searching
The Open University does, as Ormond Simpson argues, need to rediscover a personal touch (ā[!The Open University!] needs to make it personalā, Letters, 10 March), but that in itself cannot be the...
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Stopping charlatans
Abuse of the professorial title is easily remedied (āErsatz professors should be booed off the stageā, Opinion, 17 March). Section B3 of the Quality Assurance Agencyās Quality Code insists that ā...
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Atypical questions
Responding to figures on teaching-only contracts released by Fighting Against Casualisation in Education last week, a spokesperson for Birkbeck, University of London claimed that including their...
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Sistersā struggles
Re Winston Morganās article on āWhy is my professor still not black?ā (14 March). For the 2013-14 academic year, there were 100 black professors in the UK, and of these only 20 were women, so it is...
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Universities are key to entrepreneurship in Africa
The African Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship will help propel Africa to the forefront of new knowledge creation, argues John Latham
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How to make new discoveries a commercial success
Universities need to invest in the right people to make the leap from intellectual property to covetable product, says George Feiger
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Universities and economic growth go together
Some say of newer institutions that more means less, but thatās not true ā more universities mean a larger economy
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Community engagement is what universities should be for
Working in our local areas is much more than charity for higher education institutions, says Stuart Laing
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The paper unwritten: is my sexuality holding me back in academia?
Kieran Fenby-Hulse asks whether being gay limits opportunities for researchers
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Tinder research raises ethical worries for academics
Interviewees on dating app who wanted to be āused for academic purposesā highlight the difficulties of using new technology for research
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CEU: a bastion for democracy in an illiberal world?
Twenty-five years after it was founded to promote openness in the post-Soviet era, theĀ Central European University is grappling with new threats to democracy
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Graduate earnings: data by course and university draw closer
But government project may not capture āvalue addedā by some universities and courses, critic warns