1 May 2014
Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work

Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work

Scottish independenceHepi/THE essay competitionWriters with strong opinions on what Scottish independence might mean for higher education are invited to enter the Higher Education Policy Institute/...

United StatesIndian applicants up by one-thirdApplications to US graduate schools from India have risen dramatically in the past year, according to a new report. The Council of Graduate Schools, in...

A leading Argentine political theorist and advocate of “radical democracy”, long based at the University of Essex, has died

We speak to the former Children’s Laureate and next chancellor of the University of Roehampton

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
If you’re unsure where your head isfor jetting aroundIf you’re wasteful with millionsbut skimp over poundsIf discussion embarrasses you(it reveals your mistakes!)Urge pay restraint widelywhile you’re...
Hurrah for Rowan Williams (“No fooling about impact”, Opinion, 17 April). The one unifying factor of every degree should be critical analysis, training to think, bringing enlightenment to the masses...
With hindsight, perhaps the legacy of the research excellence framework on all researchers has been distilled in the tribunal judgement “responsibility for allowing their own vanity and self-interest...
One never wants to spoil a good story but it is important to correct some of the facts in “Exposé brought Warwick success” (News, 10 April).It is not true that the university employed a detective to...
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the issue of gender imbalance in certain subject areas (“Women in STEM ‘sole focus’ of gender imbalance debate”, News, 24 April) where women make up the...
Turnitin is a great tool to help identify plagiarism by students. In fact, examination of originality reports is my first action when marking student work in order to eliminate those few students who...
Graduate teaching assistantships should be scrapped, not only because of the wide discrepancies in pay and working conditions (“Labour of love: huge variation in GTA pay”, News, 24 April) but also...

A concordat aimed at ending secrecy in animal testing will allow for debate that should benefit researchers and subjects
