Turkey must stop persecuting academics
The Turkish government and the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, continue to oppress political dissent violently and illegally in Turkey. On 11 January, Erdoğan accused 1,128 academics of...
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Diverse and fair
Birkbeck, University of London, is enormously proud of its efforts to offer harmonised pay and conditions for full- and part-time members of staff. Unfortunately, your story “Universities ‘most...
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Novel entitlements
I can sympathise with David Wilson and his anger with “manager-professors” (“Ersatz professors should be booed off the stage”, Opinion, 17 March). My concerns were epitomised in one university where...
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Power up, please
Dr Goshworthy “may well have found the remains of a savoury sausage in the fridge” (The Poppletonian, 10 March), but he is not right “to use Hotelling’s T test to supplement his analysis of variance...
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Campus sport and the aims of the games
Sport at university can be a draw for some, but not all students want to take part – or support the costs of their provision
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Wellcome criticises publishers over open access
Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals
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King’s College London: reaching out to the cultural sector
Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts
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Linguistic bias in publishing is a 'myth'
Pervasive claims that non-native speakers of English are unfairly discriminated against by publishers are rebutted by linguistics expert
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Universities offer 1 per cent pay deal for 2016-17
Ucea says additional payroll pressures and market instability means uplift is ‘at the limit of affordability’ for many institutions
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Where next for world university rankings?
In the second blog from the opening seminar of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Robert Tijssen says league tables are meeting growing demand from institutions as well as students
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Theresa May ‘failed to prove’ language test students cheated
Judges rule in favour of two students who brought case after ETS fraud claims
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Rise in UK university dropout rate ‘disappointing’
Six per cent of young first degree entrants fail to advance to second year, Hesa data show