World in brief - 4 December 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesMillions balance parenthood and studyMore than a quarter (26 per cent) of undergraduate students in the US – some 4.8 million – are raising dependent children, a study has...
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Grant winners - 4 December 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Stephen GoldupInstitution: Queen Mary University of LondonValue: £104,326Mechanically chiral rotaxanes as switchable enantioselective...
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Bernd Magnus, 1937-2014
A leading expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who was a child survivor of the Holocaust, has died
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News in brief - 4 December 2014
Undergraduate admissionsDrop in early Ucas applicationsThe number of UK students who have applied early to university has fallen by 3 per cent, new interim figures show. Some 110,460 home students...
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On the rocks
The grey whale on the last page of the “Super size me” report (Features, November) is belly up. Is Times Higher Education trying to tell us something?Sean NeillAssociate fellowCentre for Education...
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Phantom menace
How refreshing to read in a serious journal a proper account of poltergeist and other paranormal phenomena (“Schools that have ghouls”, Features, 30 October).The author, Richard Sugg, starts with the...
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V-c was here
During the Second World War, the village of Simpson (now part of Milton Keynes) was home to a number of workers from nearby Bletchley Park. Local history research has identified that, for well over a...
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Recognition and reward
We applaud the advice from Annette Cashmore for those seeking promotion based on teaching (“If they like your lectures, don’t keep it to yourself”, Careers Intelligence, 6 November).A recent study by...
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New branch for humanities
Like Sarah Churchwell (“Humanities: why the study of human culture still matters”, Opinion, 13 November), I am not immune to the appeal of a good read from within the literature’s considerable...
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Plotting happy endings
As a lecturer and higher education programme leader in a further education college, I agree with Kevin Orr when he says that HE in FE can “change lives” (“HE in FE: truths and illusions”, News, 20...
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Interrogating the anti-terrorism bill
The government’s proposed statutory duty on universities in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill will require universities to “have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into...
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The week in higher education - 4 December 2014
For all the public assurances that the merger between University College London and the Institute of Education, University of London was a coming-together of equals, some IoE resistance fighters have...
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Failing to look, listen or legislate
An OMG moment is predicted for whoever wins the election as politicians address lapses in oversight and funding challenges
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A most unequal match
Source: AlamySchoolgirl errors?One of our leading pro vice-chancellors, Dr Janet Balsam, has denounced the “naive and immature” portrait of higher education recently articulated by Toni Pearce,...