News in brief - 5 March 2015
Quality assuranceQAA heads to the MedUK higher education provision in Cyprus, Greece and Malta is to be reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency. More than 20,000 students are enrolled in UK higher...
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No business like business
Source: Getty/Alamy MontageBusiness-facingIn what those with an eye for a telling headline are already calling “A shock mission admission”, our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has...
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Bulk of postgraduates ‘ineligible for loans’
Student Funder’s chief executive says an analysis shows that more than half of prospective students will miss out on the new government scheme
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Social sciences ups the PhD pace
REF data show big jumps in number of doctoral degree awards in some subjects
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Digital study may push some to web addiction
Use of online tools runs the risk of students developing problems and harming their ability to study, research finds
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EPSRC funding shifts power up energy research
Analysis reveals the winners and losers under ‘shaping capabilities’ programme
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How to cultivate the Commons touch
Seeking impact? Undertake research that prepares the ground for key political debates, says ex-Westminster insider Meg Russell
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Cranfield University: DREAM team set to dig deep into data
Students at a new doctoral training centre will use big data to tackle challenges such as extreme weather and population growth
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Attitudes hold back region, inaugural MENA Universities Summit hears
At THE summit in Qatar, Gulf states hear that culture of entitlement must go
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Dutch PhD candidates fear a downgrade in status
Could minister Jet Bussemaker’s reforms create a ‘second-class’ group of doctoral candidates?
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Shake-up aims to build rapid reaction research force
ESRC intends revised training strategy to better support PhD students and to speed work on new issues. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Grant winners - 5 March 2015
Royal Society/British AcademyNewton International FellowshipsAwarded to non-UK, early career postdoctoral researchers working across all disciplines of the humanities, engineering and natural and...
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Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
Vasilis Leontitsis weighs arguments for economic reform co-written by a scholar turned Syriza MP
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Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, by Richard Sakwa
John Barber on a powerful critique of Western policy
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago, by Gillian O’Brien
Sharon Wheeler relishes the detailed research in this true crime tale