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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Off Piste - Pools of Thought
Valerie Sanders has overcome her fear of water - as long as it's the indoor, chlorinated variety - to discover a love of swimming that brings out the worst and the best in her
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts escaped much of the flak in February's row over the appointment of Les Ebdon as director of the Office for Fair Access despite being behind the decision. Two months on, the...
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Dundee tops THE Student Experience Survey as fees put focus on 'value for money'
Many universities are improving the experience for their students, as our survey shows. And they are achieving it by making the effort to understand their students’ particular needs. Zoë Corbyn...
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The delegate's tale
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
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26 April 2012
Wave of resistance - Arab students strive to reap the fruits of Spring
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Scientists appeal to cereal killers' reason
Academics at the Rothamsted Research laboratory have launched a direct appeal to protesters not to trash a trial crop of genetically modified wheat at a protest planned for later this month.
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Odds and quads
This photograph features a scene from the 1904 revival at the Moscow Arts Theatre of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths, about a group of impoverished Russians living together in a shelter by the...
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Revolutionary road
As the fallout from the Arab Spring continues, David Matthews reports from Cairo on the birth - and troubled infancy - of the student union movement in Egypt
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Research intelligence - Value according to the metrics system
Scholars criticise methods to judge ‘at-risk’ peers in Queen Mary restructuring. Paul Jump reports
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NUS re-elects Burns and calls for Willetts to resign
Liam Burns has been re-elected as president of the National Union of Students
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V-c 'alcohol ban' comments could prompt attacks on Muslim students, London Met Islamic groups claim
Two Islamic societies at London Metropolitan University have launched a scathing attack on “undemocratic, ill devised and misleading remarks” by the vice-chancellor, who proposed banning alcohol from...
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Strict government targets for NI universities
The Northern Ireland government has issued the region’s two universities with a checklist of targets as part of its higher education strategy.
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London Met UCU returns ‘no confidence’ vote on v-c
The University and College Union has called on the governors of London Metropolitan University to “intervene and re-direct” the institution after a survey returned a 91 per cent vote of no confidence...