Atypical questions
Responding to figures on teaching-only contracts released by Fighting Against Casualisation in Education last week, a spokesperson for Birkbeck, University of London claimed that including their...
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Sisters’ struggles
Re Winston Morgan’s article on “Why is my professor still not black?” (14 March). For the 2013-14 academic year, there were 100 black professors in the UK, and of these only 20 were women, so it is...
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Universities are key to entrepreneurship in Africa
The African Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship will help propel Africa to the forefront of new knowledge creation, argues John Latham
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How to make new discoveries a commercial success
Universities need to invest in the right people to make the leap from intellectual property to covetable product, says George Feiger
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Universities and economic growth go together
Some say of newer institutions that more means less, but that’s not true – more universities mean a larger economy
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Community engagement is what universities should be for
Working in our local areas is much more than charity for higher education institutions, says Stuart Laing
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The paper unwritten: is my sexuality holding me back in academia?
Kieran Fenby-Hulse asks whether being gay limits opportunities for researchers
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Tinder research raises ethical worries for academics
Interviewees on dating app who wanted to be ‘used for academic purposes’ highlight the difficulties of using new technology for research
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CEU: a bastion for democracy in an illiberal world?
Twenty-five years after it was founded to promote openness in the post-Soviet era, the Central European University is grappling with new threats to democracy
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Graduate earnings: data by course and university draw closer
But government project may not capture ‘value added’ by some universities and courses, critic warns
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Fixed term and permanent: my two academic lives
Rejection hurts more when you don't have a long-term contract to fall back on, says Helen Lees
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Kenyan exam board bosses arrested over university entry ‘fraud’
Education minister says senior managers at Kenya National Examinations Council implicated in ‘unprecedented cheating’
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University hazing scandal goes viral in South Korea
Football team being doused in ‘milky fermented alcohol’ shines light on practice more commonly associated with the US