Flushed with success
Scientists at Brighton University have an unknown Sussex resident to thank for a breakthrough that could help Europe to clean up its rivers and bathing waters. Huw Taylor and James Ebdon of the...
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In search of identity
The Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (Cronem) at Surrey University has chosen "Nationalism and National Identities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives" as the subject of...
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Nifty footwork, York
Academics at Northampton University seem to have got the rough end of the stick in a research partnership with York University. In a rare clinical trial on the treatment of verrucas, researchers at...
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Return of Hunterian
Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum is to reopen next week on the birthday of its founder Dr William Hunter. The museum, which celebrates its bicentenary this year, will reopen on May 23 following...
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Israel torn apart by 'reforms'
Budget cuts and an exodus of academics are wreaking havoc at once-great universities, reports Nathan Jeffay Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber stood together, unable to contain their...
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World encompassed
Asian English-taught courses growing A growing number of university courses in Asia are being taught in English, a paper from an international higher education research organisation has said. The...
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Why universities owe Tony Blair a debt of thanks
Many of our readers will have decided views on Tony Blair, and those who do not could be forgiven for not wishing to have another look at his legacy after the surfeit of retrospectives over the past...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"A new body, the UK Research Integrity Office, will accept evidence of research malpractice" - The Times Higher, May 11. Dear Research Integrity Office I'd like to complain about my former colleague...
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Felipe Fernà ndez-Armesto
"See America." When I got a job in Massachusetts I thought I would be able to take the ad's advice. But it was a year before I got very far out of Boston. At last, when I began a 30-day, 20-lecture...
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Don't sex up gender pay gap 1
With most universities having just published their gender equality schemes, evidence to suggest that female staff are paid less than males was bound to be headline news ("Pay bias persists as change...
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Don't sex up gender pay gap 2
The survey of the so-called "gender pay gap" is either dishonest or incompetent, as it fails to control for any of the relevant confounding variables. Carefully controlled studies typically show that...
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Don't sex up gender pay gap 3
The gender income differences could be due as much to a failure to recruit junior male academics as to female academics not achieving pay parity. In certain disciplines so few men are being recruited...
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United we stand 1
Robert Lockie is quite mistaken about the University and College Union and Unite Against Fascism. UCU would agree that the British National Party is a "repulsive fascist group" (Letters, May 11). We...
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United we stand 2
Robert Lockie rails against the Socialist Workers Party in the University and College Union. He should ask himself why those who know us vote for us. In my case, I got the second-highest vote in the...
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Devil in the details
I agree in part with Steve Reicher's criticisms of Philip Zimbardo's famous experiment ("The devil inside us all", Features, May 11). However, his legitimate concern that acceptance of social...