Too early to learn a lesson
PGCert courses are valuable, but it is pointless to consider best practice without having practised, says Carrie Dunn
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We are stepping out of the ethical mainstream and into murky waters
A Bill allowing the creation of interspecies hybrids and reproductive cloning would bring UK science into disrepute, argues David Jones
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Lolita, lolly and lost girls
The young and vulnerable are powerless to resist the overt sexualisation used to sell us 'fun' brands like Virgin, writes Mary Evans
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'I was a football hooligan, so I had to break the law'
A law lecturer argues that ethics rules must sometimes allow researchers to act illegally in fieldwork. Melanie Newman writes
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Russell Group gets smaller share of council cash
The share of research council grant funding won by the Russell Group of 20 large research-intensive universities fell last year, according to an analysis. The smaller research-intensive universities...
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UCU uses law to demand RAE records
Union plans to make regular requests for records to prevent their being shredded, writes Zoe Corbyn
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REF citations database to cover conference data
The database that will be used to help assess the quality of academics' work under the system being set up to replace the research assessment exercise is to be expanded to improve the information it...
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Leeds rewards publication in top journals with bonus research time
UCU attacks plan to allow some academics to pass on teaching duties. Melanie Newman reports
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Part-timers deserve loans and grants, says v-c
The Government must start taking part-time students seriously and offer them the same support as full-timers, the vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University has said."There is an idea in central...
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Journals test software to catch cheats
Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. John Gill reports
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Website closes after Hesa withholds data
A website that branded named universities "rubbish" and "shocking" on the basis of data on staff-to-student ratios has been shut after its owners were refused access to official statistics....
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Loose lips sink staff relationships
Academic under threat of redundancy records manager laughing while discussing dispute, writes John Gill
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The Week in Higher Education
The fall-out over academics' complaints that their research at the British Library is being hampered by the decision to admit undergraduate students continued in the pages of the Evening Standard on...
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Labs face the threat of infiltration by extremists
Universities warned that anti-research campaigners could attack from within. Chloe Stothart reports
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Rejected mature student could bring bias case
The University of East Anglia is facing legal action for alleged indirect sex and age discrimination over an entry requirement for academic study within the past three years.Arabella Beckett, a 31-...