BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks to be next OU v-c
The next vice-chancellor of The Open University will be Peter Horrocks, currently the director of the BBC’s World Service.
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Australia: Coalition takes second run at higher education reform bill
One day after a Senate defeat, the government renews efforts to pass controversial package of changes
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Too many postdocs, not enough research jobs
Fears rise in the US that talented early career scientists are being driven out of the sector because of lack of opportunities
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Six trends in campus design
Landmarks, ‘starchitecture’, green reuse, city-centre strategies: Chris Parr on forces shaping the sector’s bricks and mortar
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One scholar’s crusade against the REF
The flawed research excellence framework is not a process of peer review in any meaningful sense, argues Derek Sayer, who appealed against his inclusion in the exercise
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11 December 2014
REFutation - One scholar’s crusade against the research excellence framework
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News in brief - 11 December 2014
Source: Ron Ellis/Shutterstock.comSatellite campusesWho’s moving to the Olympic Park?The government has awarded more than £140 million to develop a new Education and Cultural Quarter in London at the...
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Grant winners - 11 December 2014
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Daniel CredgingtonInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £453,007Spin-control and spin-dependent recombination in organic...
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Roy Bhaskar, 1944-2014
The chief architect of the philosophy of critical realism has died
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Q&A with John Coyne
We speak to the vice-chancellor of the University of Derby
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World in brief - 11 December 2014
United StatesCosby ends trustee role at alma materThe comedian and actor Bill Cosby has resigned as a trustee of his alma mater, Temple University in Philadelphia, the university has announced. Mr...
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The week in higher education - 11 December 2014
After the saga over the suspension and reinstatement of Thomas Docherty and controversy over the use of allegedly “simplistic” metrics to choose academics for redundancy, the University of Warwick...
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Otherwise engaged
How splendidly appropriate was the choice of Peter J. Smith, author of Between Two Stools, to review Dara Blumenthal’s pretentious disquisition on our excretory habits, Little Vast Rooms of Undoing:...
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Fare thee well
Having worked as an academic for more than 40 years, I’ve decided to retire next month. Several colleagues have asked me why, given the option to work beyond 65. There are a few reasons. One is that...