‘Simplistic’ redundancy metrics criticised
Warwick staff concerned about ‘single cash metric’ used to identify redundancies in life sciences
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Hong Kong’s students ask: if not now, when?
The territory’s young people have bravely asked the question that its universities have ducked, observes Bruce Macfarlane
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What’s the point of the party conference?
Martin McQuillan takes a whistle-stop tour of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat events
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Academy’s fat cats ‘too smart’ to attack Labour’s £6,000 fees policy
Liam Byrne, the shadow universities minister, also urges the sector to speak out to prevent a ‘disastrous’ exit from the European Union
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Dissemination of dissent: lessons from Iran’s revolution
Iran shaped the career of Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at Soas, but doing research there remains difficult
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Education and satisfaction are antithetical
Why keep on assessing how students feel? asks Joanna Williams
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Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall, by Hester Vaizey
First-person accounts add complexity to popular notions of East Germany, writes Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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Why not dungarees?
Sally Feldman on the fashion choices available to female scholars
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Hidden leopard-skin G-string exposed
Swiss-French scientist says he just wants to have fun
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QAA review: let’s avoid another 'quality war'
Hefce’s decision to invite external bodies to bid for work undertaken by the higher education watchdog carries risks, warns Peter Williams
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UUK data 'misleading' over the impact of USS reform
Oxford criticises figures given to universities illustrating the impact of future cuts amid calls for independent modelling
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After Chávez
Mike Cole praises Venezuela for “the promotion of social democracy and the mass alleviation of poverty” (“What is the best bloc for a 21st-century education system?”, From Where I Sit, 9 October). He...
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Intellectual cowardice
Scholarship can be a fearsome activity, as Chris Walsh discovered when he set out to investigate the figure of the coward
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Business schools: thinkers v doers
Apprentice interviewer Claude Littner offers UK business schools advice on balancing the practical and the theoretical
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Graduates should be matched to local jobs, says report
Universities should encourage graduates to stay in the city where they studied by helping them to find jobs and housing, a report recommends.