The Week in Higher Education
- Plans by Imperial College London to introduce its own entrance exam sparked a flurry of headlines. Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial, told the Independent Schools Council's annual conference in...
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Royal Holloway proves its head for research as v-c goes to Hefce
There may be something in the water at Royal Holloway, University of London. The same institution that provided the Higher Education Funding Council for England with its last research policy chief is...
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The loneliness of the lone RAE runners
Academics who are sole entrants in their category admit to feeling the pressure. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Offa chief warns against meddling in admissions
Requiring universities' admissions policies to be part of a statutory agreement with the Office for Fair Access would be "difficult and perhaps even illegal", the organisation's head has warned.John...
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Institutional rankings in environment and ecology
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
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Workplace Practicalities of Cosmetic and Elective Surgery
An increasing number of people in the UK are choosing to have cosmetic surgery. This is having an impact on the workplace, often putting employers into unknown territory when an employee asks for...
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More academics using trivial excuses to avoid marking
Rising numbers of Poppleton academics are avoiding their full marking load by claiming that mitigating circumstances marred their capacity to mark. According to our ever-expanding Human Resources...
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What price crazed genius?
Gauging the 'public value' of arts graduates is a tricky job, says Sally Feldman
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Leader: Good faith, yes, but no miracles
Universities know academies have their risks, but they join out of a sense of justice and mission. Just don't expect wonders
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Bartolomeu dos Santos 1931-2008
An acclaimed Portuguese artist who taught printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art for 35 years has died, aged 76.Bartolomeu dos Santos, known as Barto, started at the school as a student in the...
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Open access does not mean no peer review
Philip Altbach displays a startling lack of understanding of what open access means ("Hidden cost of open access", 5 June). It does not mean abandoning peer review and putting all academic work on...
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Reviewers and recompense
Steve Fuller (Letters, 5 June) misunderstands what the Research Information Network report on the costs of the scholarly communications system says about peer review. We calculate that the time spent...
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Copyright madness
As the editor of Irish Writing in the 20th Century: A Reader and someone mentioned in Alistair McCleery's feature ("Dead hands keep a closed book", 5 June), let me add a brief comment.Like James...
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Politics, politeness and PR 1
Nothing illustrates more the insidious damage being done to higher education through the colonisation of university processes by a rampant managerialism than the University of Nottingham's...