Success rates data may mask gender bias
Experts question whether funders are doing enough to tackle discrimination in grant applications
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Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic
Scholars and their significant others share the good, the bad and the ugly
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The week in higher education – 20 October 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Grant winners – 20 October 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 20 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The class ceiling: why aren’t there more academics like me?
UUK must help advance equality at the front of the lecture hall through loan write-offs and conferences, says Geraldine Van Bueren
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Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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How US universities became IP-based capitalists
In embracing ‘cognitive capitalism’, US universities have moved from knowledge generation to income generation, argues Henry Heller
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Damage control in Scotland
The further the Brexit proposals for the university sector are unveiled, the more disastrous they appear (“Brexit turmoil ‘pushes university pension deficit to £15 billion’”). It seems that the prime...
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Wish they were here
News that the numbers of foreign students overstaying their visas have been grossly overestimated does not come as a huge surprise. The sector has been saying for years that students are education...
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Carrot or stick?
A leitmotif of current higher education debate is the tension between public and private good (“Public higher education ‘dying in the US’, warns Robert Reich”, News, 27 September). Governmental...
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Splitting chairs
On 12 October, Sir John Kingman appeared before the Science and Technology Committee to be questioned on the role of the interim chair of UK Research and Innovation, a post to which he had been...
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Knockin’ on Britain’s door
The government is a broken record on overseas student numbers when all the evidence suggests that academic mobility is a win-win situation