World in brief – 14 May 2015
CanadaSmaller slice of sector’s revenue pie goes on salariesThe share of Canadian universities’ spending allocated to academics’ salaries fell between 2000 and 2013, challenging the argument that...
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Grant winners – 14 May 2015
Leverhulme TrustMajor research fellowshipsAward winner: Stephen HartInstitution: University College LondonValue: £97,155A critical edition of the apostolic processus of Santa Rosa de Lima (1586-1617)...
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News in brief – 14 May 2015
PublishingSpringer Nature is bornCompetition authorities have approved the merger of two major publishers. The European Union and the US Department of Justice have cleared the unification of Springer...
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Teledons say ‘eh oh’
Michael Stewart, professor of social anthropology and vice-dean for enterprise and knowledge transfer at University College London, says that universities are deadly conservative, are not nearly as...
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Exam problems
I was interested in the study into inconsistent marking, in particular that the examiners awarded “hugely inconsistent marks” and that “a large element of unreliability” would always remain in...
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Apples and oranges
I cannot see how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (Ahelo) project could realistically test learning outcomes in tertiary...
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Soviet administrators
Rob Briner’s article on the misapplication of private sector human resources techniques in universities lucidly characterises the regime of micromanagement and constant monitoring (bordering on...
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Measures to REFer to
The suggestion to rank institutions according to quality-related funding per staff member submitted to the research excellence framework is problematic, and not only because some research fields are...
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Open up MPs’ closed shop
Nine out of 10 new MPs in the House of Commons are graduates, 26 per cent hold an Oxbridge degree and 28 per cent went to another Russell Group university (“New Commons still has high proportion of...
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National examination would benefit medics
“Are universities losing control of what they teach to medical students?” asks John Cookson (“Sleepwalking into a crisis”, Opinion, 7 May). It is a legitimate question. However, his analysis omits...
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The week in higher education – 14 May 2015
The election result is unlikely to have gone down well among academics, given the Times Higher Education pre-poll survey suggesting that most intended to vote Labour. But one philosophy lecturer took...
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Postgraduate stop-gap cash shunned by universities
Sixteen institutions have refused all or part of the allocations to bridge gap before loan scheme kicks in
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‘Evolving manuscripts’: the future of scientific communication?
Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting ‘outmoded’ publishing practices
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Consider agents as a force for good, paper says
Rethinking relationships with international recruiters could help universities to assuage academics’ fears, researchers suggest