Portsmouth builds cultural-industrial faculty
Government support for the creative and cultural industries and growing student interest in related disciplines have prompted Portsmouth University to establish a new faculty to capitalise on this...
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Today's news
Top grade for a quarter of A-level pupils The A-level pass rate has risen for the 24th year in succession and almost a quarter of entries were awarded A grades, the exam boards announced yesterday....
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Laurie Taylor column
What Are You Reading on Holiday? According to reliable estimates, nearly 80,000 academics from UK universities are currently enjoying a summer vacation. But what are they reading during their time...
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Alan Ryan
Today is A-level results day. It was nice to see Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, getting his retaliation in not just first, but a whole month early: not waiting until the results were out to...
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Leader: Ministers bluster, universities suffer
The declining proportion of people entering higher education is a major blow for the Government. Its drive to expand student numbers and attract more pupils from less privileged backgrounds is,...
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Leader: The democratic guide
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that allows users to write, edit and add to its articles, has often been accused of inaccuracy. In the past, it has offered entries describing footballer...
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Long way to go to find fair funding 1
While Claire Donovan makes a persuasive case against metrics (Opinion, August 11), this new system of measuring research quality will not differ significantly from the research assessment exercise....
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Long way to go to find fair funding 2
I was pleased to see such a positive take on postgraduate research ("Research boost will bring jobs bonanza" and"Life for PhD students is on the up", August 11). But there is still a long way to go....
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Cash and complaints 1
You report that students decided not to bring a complaint to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator because they feared they would not get compensation ("Newport spat could set legal precedent",...
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Cash and complaints 2
I was very saddened but not surprised to read "Grievances are 'mishandled'" (August 4). This adds weight to the argument that universities must make students' examination papers available once they...
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Give us time to talk
Your article on the increasing importance of press offices and public relations staff at universities raises some interesting implications for academics ("Trust us, we're not academics", August 4). I...
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Offa to give the facts
Offa to give the facts Daryn McCombe's letter (August 11) contains so many statements seemingly destined to become urban myths that it seems appropriate to set the record straight before it is too...
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Getting out of the fix 1
I was interested to read about Edinburgh University moving researchers to permanent contracts ("Edinburgh management and union forge unique alliance..." August 4) as this is something we've been...
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Getting out of the fix 2
You state that University College London is "about to cement a deal that would mean putting all researchers with more than four years' service on permanent contracts". In fact, UCL has been issuing...
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Elementary concern
I am baffled by Tom Franklin's suggestion (Letters, August 11) that "academic freedom must relate to those areas in which the academic is qualified". I am a chartered psychologist but I have...