鈥楶rofessor hunters鈥 dig in on the digital battlefield
Brian Bloch considers the attacks against two Humboldt University scholars in the internet age
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USS deficit rises despite savings from end of final salary pensions
Rising liabilities may again focus attention on whether聽Universities Superannuation Scheme assumptions are 鈥榰nreasonably pessimistic鈥
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New HEA chair: paying members could enshrine it as professional body
Rama Thirunamachandran says role and financing of sector鈥檚 teaching champion must be rethought
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Grant winners 鈥撀27 August 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Holistic education, not vocational
Hidden in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development鈥檚 report on graduate jobs is the very questionable statement that choosing an apprenticeship instead of university could be a much...
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Met with concerns
Reading the article on London Metropolitan University鈥檚 new strategic plan, we had to smile (鈥淕rants and teaching checks in Met vision鈥, News, 20 August). Vice-chancellor John Raftery鈥檚 reference to...
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Who really pays the price?
It was hardly a surprise to read of concern about non-UK European Union students not repaying the loan for their tuition fees (鈥淚nterest is not mere linguistics鈥, Leader, 20 August). This was obvious...
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Hard to handle
The William Shockley example that Lincoln Allison uses in his discussion of academics sharing controversial ideas is quite telling here, as no one would have given two figs what a semiconductor...
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The ref鈥檚 a procrastinator
I was very interested by the feature concerning low refereeing standards (鈥淥n the receiving end鈥, Features, 6 August). One regrettable practice that was not mentioned was the increasing tendency for...
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Routine atrocities
In reviewing Debarati Sanyal鈥檚 Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (Books, 6 August), Robert Eaglestone summarises and endorses her argument that 鈥渢he memory of the Holocaust...
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Female Romantics no myth
Jane Darcy is wrong when she says that only two chapters in my book, 30 Great Myths about the Romantics, concern women (Books, 6 August). In addition to that on women writers generally, there are...
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Nominative indeterminism
When lists of academics with unusual names are made, Professor Richard Titball (how could his parents, how could they?), the microbiologist from the University of Exeter, usually gets a mention (鈥...
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The week in higher education 鈥 27 August 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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News blog: would academics pay for HEA membership?
The TEF is likely to prove critical in deciding the fate of higher education鈥檚 teaching champion, says Chris Havergal