What price victory? Ten times more than defeat
The huge costs that universities can incur fighting employment tribunal claims, even when the institution is vindicated by the result, have been highlighted by a case in Scotland.The University of St...
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Wanted: grants made for walking
ESF chief says young researchers value mobility and autonomy over job security. Paul Jump reports
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News in Brief
Graduate jobsPrescription for successThere is wide variation in graduate employment rates between universities, figures show. The proportion of graduates who are working or studying six months after...
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Profit and loss
Gary Day watches a story of spiralling debt and fails to be uplifted by a fairy-tale take on unemployment
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Stop me if you've heard this one!
Our university has responded promptly to the news that Mark Russell and Helen Barefoot of the University of Hertfordshire's Learning and Teaching Institute have discovered the formula for the perfect...
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When the levy breaks
A flawed graduate tax will harm students and the sector, says Alan Ryan
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Research intelligence - Pilot wail: clarification please
Hefce's trial of the REF's impact assessment is highlighting where the problems lie, writes Paul Jump
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersRobert Eaglestone is professor of contemporary literature and thought, Royal Holloway, University of London. "I've been rereading Hannah...
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Off Piste: Pride of place
The British landscape and representations of it in art give rise to a happy patriotic glow in many people. Fred Inglis shares that fervour
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Leader: Open the lab doors to the light
To restore faith after Climategate, researchers must be clearer about the limits of peer review and transparent in their workings
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From where I sit: Noble quest for knowledge
How do you become an academic and a scholar? Usually, those who aim to research and teach are privileged with a formal education and spend their lives in academia. It is virtually impossible to come...
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Shirley Grundy, 1947-2010
An Australian educationalist who took on a leadership role in Hong Kong has died.Shirley Grundy was born in Perth, Australia on 25 June 1947. She started her career as a teacher in rural primary...
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Serve business? What about the big issues?
Boredom and lack of interest are conveyed by the faces and body posture of students in the photograph accompanying your article on business schools ("Voices of experience", 15 July). The article...
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Balance imbalance
Kate Pickett is right to question the snobbish attitude that some academics seem to hold towards commitment, persuasive rhetoric and "ideology critique" as legitimate devices in the "battle of ideas...