Wake up to the new world, declares Willetts
Laggards, not AAB policy, caused hiccups, suggests minister. John Morgan reports from Birmingham
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No talk of U-turns, please: call for cross-party unity on immigration shift
A Tory MP and a Labour colleague from a parliamentary committee have called for cross-party consensus on withdrawing overseas students from net migration figures so the government can make the policy...
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USS bonanza fails to reward its pensioners
Bonuses paid to investment staff working within the sector's main pension scheme almost doubled as it closed its final salary scheme to new members.
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Oxbridge deaf to the Hear's siren call
Institutions say they will not be adopting student report card scheme. David Matthews reports
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Union digs in heels over proposed redundancies for archaeologists
Strike action considered after Birmingham plans to make department history. Paul Jump writes
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Enter the dragon - or face losing fee support
Plaid Cymru's shadow education minister has called for tuition fee support to be withdrawn from Welsh students who study in other parts of the UK.
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Unheimlich manoeuvres in the race to make CGI real
Why are almost-lifelike animated characters creepy? Chris Parr talks to a researcher exploring the 'uncanny valley'
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News in brief
Postgraduate teacher trainingLabour's top-down reward schemeA Labour government would pay off part of high-flying students' tuition fees in exchange for a commitment to work as teachers in deprived...
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Rights and proper debate
Geraldine Van Bueren urges the British Academy to extend the discussion about the pros and cons of a UK Bill of Rights
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Body poles apart, for it maps the icy contours of science and politics
The British Antarctic Survey serves two masters and may need independent funding to meet its mission, suggests Klaus Dodds
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This old house
A controversial article by a Poppleton academic in the latest edition of The British Journal of Experimental Symbolism (Vol 22: 33-74) suggests a strong symbolic connection between the present...
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Ill-conceived checks a passport to distrust (1 of 2)
Scott Poynting and Ann Singleton's opinion piece ("You look foreign: bring your passport, it's what the UKBA would want", 4 October) highlights the dangers of unintentional racism if higher education...
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Ill-conceived checks a passport to distrust (2 of 2)
Our universities' craven complicity with the government's racist "immigration policy" shames us all. Resigning as external examiners - and refusing to cover for others - rather than supplying...
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Doctoring the tenure track
Earlier this year I got involved in quite detailed conversations with my head of department about a tenured post at the university where I currently teach one day a week as an assistant lecturer....
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Dated criticism
"Red alert" ( September), your feature on the cost of the government's policies for financing higher education, gives an excellent and balanced account of the issues. It shows why we should all be...