Imposing admissions targets would be ‘draconian’, ministers told
Higher education Green Paper says director of fair access to higher education could be given power to set entry goals for universities
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Spending review: fears for student opportunity funding and research budget
Student opportunity cuts could worsen part-time crisis, warns Open University v-c, while research concerns focus on ring-fence and ‘tucking in’
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The week in higher education – 19 November 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 19 November 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 19 November 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Why I had to quit the research excellence framework panel
With no time for proper peer review and with grade inflation inevitable, one academic felt compelled to resign
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V-cs have brought the teaching excellence framework on themselves
It is wrong for universities to ignore learning, says Anthony Seldon
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‘Ideas are ghostly things, and scholarly writing is a kind of magic’
As a manuscript haunts her, Shahidha Bari muses on Apple and the Bard
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Teaching still far from parity
Richard Black is right to highlight the need for debate around the Green Paper (“Higher education Green Paper: have universities really neglected teaching?”, 9 November), but I am not sure that he is...
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Online isolation
You report that researchers from Walden University and the University of Phoenix find that “persons with disabilities experience marginalisation in education on a regular basis” (“Students with...