Open University’s numbers dive 28% as pool of part-timers dries up
University faces £17m deficit as enrolments fall while expenditures rise
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The impact of impact
The REF’s formal assessment of the impact of academic work was highly controversial in theory: how did it play out in practice?
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Leaked paper describes Swansea’s economics staff as a ‘cancer’
Battle continues between staff and management including senior figures Nigel and Niall Piercy
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Arts research is a driver, not a spotter
I read David Oldfield’s article with a mixture of irritation and disbelief (“You’re here to teach. Save the trainspotting for the weekend”, Opinion, 12 February). Oldfield’s assumption that his...
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Out of office: on research leave in Florence
Poring over manuscripts in the Biblioteca Nazionale prompts Nicholas Till to consider the benefits of studying original documents in a digital age
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‘Learning gain’: did students bulk up in mental muscle?
Could US moves to measure undergraduates’ improvements in critical thinking, writing and other skills spread to the UK?
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The week in higher education - 19 February 2015
A university is to end its use of lifelike prosthetic masks to train nurses over fears that they stigmatised people with mental health problems, the Aberdeen Press and Journal reported on 16 February...
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No shades of grey in teaching relationships
Academics should be banned from damaging sexual liaisons with students, postgraduates in particular, argues Luke Brunning
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19 February 2015
A hard look at impact - How did it play out in the REF?
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Claire Ashmore, Danny Dorling, Liz Gloyn, Sandra Leaton Gray and June Purvis...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Could Skype boost semesters abroad?
The Institute of International Education hopes that 1,000 teachers can help it double the number of Americans studying overseas
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Horizon budget cuts sends out wrong signal
Proposals to trim research and innovation programme ‘downgrades importance’ of funding at European level, warns EUA
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Grant winners - 19 February 2015
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Christopher BaylissInstitution: University of LeicesterValue: £158,130Mutate and survive: how bacteria fight virusesAward winner: Karen...
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Katharine Worth, 1922-2015
A leading theatre scholar who worked closely with the playwright Samuel Beckett has died
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Q&A with Nancy Viviani
We speak to an international relations scholar who played a key role in the establishment of Australian-Asian studies