A REF change that would lose telling details
Nobody likes bureaucracy, but detail can matter. In the case of the research excellence framework, the process of choosing and submitting individual units of research for assessment is complex and...
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Homer’s DNA
Ian Goldin, quoted in the article “Multidisciplinary research ‘career suicide’ for junior academics” (News, 3 May), seems to view top journals as highly specialised. I know that Science and Nature...
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Open for debate
I wish to address five misconceptions in Ron Iphofen’s feature “Safety is more important than privacy” (28 April): 1. Human rights concerns hobble anti-terrorist surveillanceThere is no evidence that...
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Grain of salt needed
Re “NSS manipulation claims ‘raise questions’ about data reliability” (News, 26 May). There is simply bad teaching in universities; I have found that myself and have reported the misuse of statistics...
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Vodka ironic, please
Craig Brandist (“The risks of Soviet-style managerialism in UK universities”, Opinion, 5 May) highlights the striking similarity between Soviet industrial management and the current administration of...
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Grant winners – 2 June 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Higher education: we need to talk about market exit
Plans for handling institutional failure face scrutiny as storm clouds gather and universities stockpile for a rainy day
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Sally Hunt: universities should ‘donate strike pay to bursaries’
UCU leader will tell congress that docked salaries should be handed to student hardship funds
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New European university group unveiled
Guild of European Research Intensive Universities aims to ‘complement’ existing alliances
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Rhodes Trust to launch new institute and expand scholarships
The Atlantic Philanthropies gives £75 million to Rhodes Trust and £64.4 million for LSE inequality research
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What do the public really think about academics?
Do people fear the menace of 'transient academics', or is it just more scholarly infighting? Gerard Kelly writes
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London Met plans to cut 400 jobs in ‘rebuild’ vision
Move to axe 14 per cent of workforce branded ‘devastating’, but v-c insists change needed