5 March 2015
From the top - Vice-chancellors on what it takes to lead

From the top - Vice-chancellors on what it takes to lead

University lecturers could face tougher quality assessments to address a growing number of undergraduate complaints, The Sunday Times reported on 1 March. The results of the assessments – which will...

We speak to the human rights barrister, chancellor of the Asian University for Women and visiting professor in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham

South University of Science and Technology of China wanted to buck the system. Did it succeed? asks Hong Bing

United StatesStudents report being pressured into non-consensual sexAlmost 10 per cent of female and 4 per cent of male undergraduates say they have “been pressured or forced into sexual contact...
I trust that it was entirely accidental that the review of Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education (Books, 26 February) was followed by the review of...
The day the Association of Business Schools’ most recent ranking of journals was released, I woke to find that some of my publications had been transformed, as if by academic alchemy, from 3* lead to...
I would like to clarify inaccuracies in the piece about the use of silicone masks at Robert Gordon University (The week in higher education, 19 February). The university is not ending its use of the...
I write in response to the article about the use of agents by UK universities (“Agents paid an average of £1,767 per non-EU recruit”, News, 19 February). Because of an error, the figures released by...
In his letter “No tuition fees on principle” (26 February), Jack Douglas makes a logical error that does not help his case.If university students are funded by loans repayable by those individuals...
The article “Social science ‘critical’ to innovation” (26 February) may have created an erroneous impression.The British Academy spans the social sciences and humanities and works with a range of...
In a report for the Higher Education Policy Institute last week, Welsh universities were warned that they would not necessarily see any benefit from scrapping the Welsh government tuition fee subsidy...
Remuneration is undoubtedly a contributing factor to UK higher education’s ability to attract and retain world-leading staff (“Performance-related pay is ‘way forward’”, News, 26 February). However,...
Funding undergraduate education through the current combination of tuition fees and loans is dishonest, unfair, inefficient, unrealistic and damaging to the university. It is dishonest because it...
