Senior administrative staff salary details kept secret
Universities claim releasing information would harm commercial interests or breach staff privacy

Universities claim releasing information would harm commercial interests or breach staff privacy

Things to say, and things to not say, in a campus biography

The counter-terrorism bill will co-opt academics into the ‘securocrat’ and chill debate on campus - it must be fought, says Martin Hall

Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental ‘speed date’

The literary theorist talks about his 50-year career, the importance of low-minded virtues and the double act of Christianity and communism

Institutions ‘unbending’ on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume

Multi-faulty? - The good, the bad and the ugly of multidisciplinary, do-it-all departments

Teacher trainingScotland funds 250 extra placesFunding to increase teacher training places at Scottish universities by more than 8 per cent has been announced by the Holyrood government. The...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Source: GettyMacedoniaFrustrated young scholars are fed upAnger over low pay, cronyism and excessive workloads may lead to an “exodus” of academics from Macedonia, a study claims. Some 65 per cent of...

Students searching for the perfect university must value the diversity on offer and be aware of the complexity it brings, says Alan Ruby

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Simon BeltInstitution: Plymouth UniversityValue: £173,049Quantification of sea-ice carbon within Arctic ecosystemsAward winner: Hugh R. A...

Graffiti. That’s what’s missing from John Sutherland’s examination of campus lavatorial facilities (“At your convenience”, Features, 18/25 December).“A woman without a man is like a fish without a...
To paraphrase Churchill, “The peer review system is the worst system there is…apart from all the others” (“Slighted by the gatekeepers”, News, 18/25 December).Journal editors need skin as thick as...