Funding black holes
The paradox suggested by Piled Higher and Deeper (21 November), that travelling forward in time to peek at the results of your research would mean the research was never undertaken, is akin to the “...
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Moral economy
Robert Colls is right that the 50th anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class deserves to be marked and celebrated (“The Making and the man”, 21...
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Dog-eat-dog snarling
The hothouse rivalries and cut-throat competition that typify today’s university surely add fuel to the fire of abusive academic discourse (“Nasty, brutish and short”, 7 November).The struggle for...
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Market deficit
The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by Times Higher Education in the past two weeks (“Assets, liabilities and old age tensions”, 14 November; “Equity inequities”, 21 ...
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Police state actors
We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the arrest of Michael Chessum, president of the University of London Union, for allegedly organising a demonstration apparently contrary to the Public Order...
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Humanities in need of wider Horizon 2020
We are deeply concerned by the plans for Horizon 2020, the European Union’s forthcoming seven-year research and innovation programme. The promises made by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, commissioner for...
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Never having to say sorry
Should our university be ashamed because it occupies such a lowly rank in the current list of UK universities?That was the question our reporter Keith Ponting (30) put to Deputy Head of Brand...
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‘Miss’ no hit with illustrious Queen Mary alumna
Inaccurate ‘begging letter’ incenses emeritus professor
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EPSRC calls for more CDT cash
Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training
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Deloitte maps space in student cribs
The number of purpose-built student bed spaces in each region of the UK in 2013-14, how much they cost on average per week and the number of full-time students in 2011-12 are shown here
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Work-to-rule may hit academics in pay packet
Working Time Regulations not as restrictive as UCU thinks, lawyer argues
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Unions unite to protest ULU president’s arrest
Open letter from around 100 staff condemns police action
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Continuum study to press for solutions to part-time slump
Sector’s report on decline failed to provide answers, says UEL centre’s director John Storan
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Russell Group enrolments vary widely across London
Discrepancies not fully explained by attainment levels, report finds