Grant delay unrelated to spending review fears, BBSRC insists
Postponement of responsive mode grants partly aimed at preserving success rates while research council makes ‘additional large investments’
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‘Professor hunters’ dig in on the digital battlefield
Brian Bloch considers the attacks against two Humboldt University scholars in the internet age
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USS deficit rises despite savings from end of final salary pensions
Rising liabilities may again focus attention on whether Universities Superannuation Scheme assumptions are ‘unreasonably pessimistic’
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New HEA chair: paying members could enshrine it as professional body
Rama Thirunamachandran says role and financing of sector’s teaching champion must be rethought
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Grant winners – 27 August 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Holistic education, not vocational
Hidden in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s report on graduate jobs is the very questionable statement that choosing an apprenticeship instead of university could be a much...
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Met with concerns
Reading the article on London Metropolitan University’s new strategic plan, we had to smile (“Grants and teaching checks in Met vision”, News, 20 August). Vice-chancellor John Raftery’s reference to...
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Who really pays the price?
It was hardly a surprise to read of concern about non-UK European Union students not repaying the loan for their tuition fees (“Interest is not mere linguistics”, Leader, 20 August). This was obvious...
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Hard to handle
The William Shockley example that Lincoln Allison uses in his discussion of academics sharing controversial ideas is quite telling here, as no one would have given two figs what a semiconductor...
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The ref’s a procrastinator
I was very interested by the feature concerning low refereeing standards (“On the receiving end”, Features, 6 August). One regrettable practice that was not mentioned was the increasing tendency for...
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Routine atrocities
In reviewing Debarati Sanyal’s Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (Books, 6 August), Robert Eaglestone summarises and endorses her argument that “the memory of the Holocaust...
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Female Romantics no myth
Jane Darcy is wrong when she says that only two chapters in my book, 30 Great Myths about the Romantics, concern women (Books, 6 August). In addition to that on women writers generally, there are...
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Nominative indeterminism
When lists of academics with unusual names are made, Professor Richard Titball (how could his parents, how could they?), the microbiologist from the University of Exeter, usually gets a mention (“...
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The week in higher education – 27 August 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press