Victorian valuations
The debate about funding research-intensive universities ignores commonplace 21st-century working practices ("Truth in numbers: study pinpoints 'critical mass' for research success", 8 July). My...
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Tax haven from self-interest
Certain Russell Group members have displayed distinctly self-interested behaviour in past weeks with regard to student fees. Universities are social assets, yet the extremely well-paid managerial...
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The right kind of scrutiny
Good regulation of the rules that govern behaviour and practice may help standardise social work education. However, moves towards more open and transparent regulation run the risk of providing mere...
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Mastering the research
Your report "Concentrating cash will harm UK, says v-c" (15 July) confuses an important statistic about the research environment. Research degrees are heavily concentrated in research-intensive...
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Media not the only message
I admire Peter Hill's commitment to "keeping it visual" in studio-art PhDs ("How to pass the sight test", 15 July), but he appears to claim special status for studio artists. I can assure him that...
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Do better, Feelbetter 1
The advice dispensed in the Blog Confidential columns has been so consistently obsequious - "take care, keep your head down, do nothing" - that Dr Margot Feelbetter could only be a representative of...
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Do better, Feelbetter 2
The Blog Confidential on unions in higher education (8 July) is way off the mark. It is untrue that "union membership is falling": it has risen markedly over the past two years. And the "dilemma" of...
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And yet it works
The researchers have been exonerated, but details revealed in Climategate led some to demand radical reform of the culture of science. Adam Corner argues that although there is scope for more...
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A bona fide dispute
A paper scrutinising the academic credentials of people on both sides of the climate change debate has riled almost everyone. Darrell Ince considers the faults of a nonetheless important work
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22 July 2010
Appropriate scrutiny? - Climategate’s questions for peer review and the culture of science
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Another fine mess we must get into
Sir David Watson rates the performance of Cable and Willetts and offers them his vision of the academy’s future – a flexible but united sector providing long-term learning on American lines
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UK and Russia look to the skies to improve life on Earth
The newly formed UK Space Agency has signed an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Bureau, Roscosmos, that promises to boost collaboration on space research between the two countries. The...
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Willetts’ advice for the disappointed legions: don’t follow the ‘Club Med’ model
Students who fail to gain a place at university this year should consider the “range of other options” available, such as apprenticeships and work experience, before deciding to reapply in future,...
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Searching for cash overseas
By Scott Jaschik for Insidehighered
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‘Perverse’ VAT policy will harm libraries and research, Chancellor told
Plans to increase VAT on e-books to 20 per cent will not only affect university libraries but will also inhibit research and learning and the digital economy, the organisation representing the UK and...