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Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Higher education Green Paper" in the November 9, 2015 issue, "Collective wisdom," in the October 29, 2015 issue and "A teaching shop on every corner" in the October 22, 2015 issue.

The author discusses the Green Paper, a tentative government report and consultation document of policy proposals for debate and discussion, committed by universities and science minister Jo Johnson in Great Britain. Topics include higher education legislation in the country, educational reform, and the proposes legislation which will become as a Christmas tree bill.

The article discusses a study on research competitiveness in universities in Great Britain. It references the paper "Measuring research competitiveness in UK universities: introducing the Herfindahl Index to the 2008 and 2014 research assessment exercises," by Anthony Kelly and published in "Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education" in August 2015. Among the research subjects that are competitive include computer science, business and management, and art and design.

This section offers news briefs on higher education in Great Britain as of September 2015 including Scottish universities concerned about losing their status as charities, the tendency for academics to rise up the citations list through snappy titles for their papers and Great Britain's ranking as the world's top destination for fashion students.

The article discusses a research paper on the earnings of graduates from an elite Group of Eight university compared to those of less selective institutions in Great Britain.

The article discusses a paper published within the issue on measuring the teaching excellence framework in Great Britain.

The article reports that universities in Great Britain have been requested to think carefully about the challenges of religion in a stimulus paper released by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

This section offers higher education news briefs as of May 5, 2015. Topics include allegations of inappropriate sexist comments against a University of Sussex academic of a peer reviewer who said her research paper could be improved by the addition of a male co-author, details of a conference on the terrorist attack at French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" at the Queen's University Belfast, and comments from Nigel Piercy, dean of Swansea University's business school on trade unionists.

This section offers higher education news briefs as of April 2015. Students, union members and staff of the University of Bolton staged a protest demanding that two dismissed employees who allegedly leaked information to the press be reinstated. The use of performance metrics by the Imperial College of London will be reviewed after one of its academics died in 2014. Forty-three papers by authors based in China are being retracted by BioMed Central due to bogus contact details of peer reviewers.

The article discusses the importance of departmental reviews in ensuring the quality of research and teaching in the British higher education sector as of February 2015. Topics covered include the 2014 research excellence framework (REF), information on the discussion paper "The Future of Quality Assessment in Higher Education" of the Quality of Assessment Review Steering Group, and the involvement of universities in knowledge transfer, civic engagement and other third-stream activities.

This section presents articles that satirizes developments in the British higher education sector as of January 2015. Topics include the new technique for reducing the threat posed by international students, and a paper in the "Journal of Diversity in Higher Education" that prompted the designation of "Hierarchical Non Microaggression Day."

The article discusses a research paper on the bias of the National Student Survey against universities specializing in art and design in Great Britain, which references a study by Mantz Yorke et al., published in an issue of the "Studies in Higher Education.

The article offers news briefs related to higher education in Great Britain as of December 11, 2014. The University of the Arts London and University College London will develop new campuses at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as part of more than 140 million British pounds Education and Cultural Quarter. Universities have launched open online courses to educate people about Ebola virus. Princeton University Press has launched online collection of papers of Albert Einstein's 44 years of life.

The article focuses on a paper which warns that cheaper international and private providers and increasing online provision pose as significant threats to business schools in Great Britain.

The article presents a study carried out by Google as of October 2014, which showed that the proportion of major research papers published in leading journals in Great Britain has declined in the past 18 years.

This section offers news briefs about universities in Great Britain as of October 9, 2014. Researchers from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh are studying eggs from emus and chickens to understand the causes of birth defect. Queen Margaret University has launched the world's first postgraduate degree for professional complaint handlers. The "University Paper" set up by Nottingham Trent University student Chris Moss has signed a deal with Simian Publishing.