The week in higher education – 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Student voice is nowhere near overpowering
In a recent opinion article, Nick Hillman asked, “Is the voice of students’ unions too powerful?” (26 March). Of course there should be a discussion about the role of students and students’ unions in...
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Valuation vexation
In “USS strike: why I won’t join the pensions strike” (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper, Security and...
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No star ratings
Cathy Shrank is right to take the universities minister, Sam Gyimah, to task over his plans to introduce consumer-style ratings for degree courses, but I’m not sure she goes far enough (“...
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Power and speech
The article “Stop taking liberties with free speech” ( Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018, 22 March) verged on self-satirising propaganda for the Office for Students and its plan...
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Let’s defend pensions, not defined benefits
Converting the USS into a defined contributions scheme could give younger academics a bigger pension pot, argues David Voas
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Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century, by Linda Nochlin
Book of the week: Lennard J. Davis lauds a study of portrayals of the poor as a fitting memorial to its author
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What are you reading? – 5 April 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 5 April 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The borrowers: will universities’ debts pay off?
Universities on both sides of the Atlantic are building up big debts, but is it prudent to bet on student numbers growing and super-low interest rates and high fees enduring? David Matthews examines...
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Rise in firsts and 2:1s highest among those with lowest A levels
Data from one of last Hefce reports likely to throw down the gauntlet to new Office for Students on grade inflation