Missing core of science
Tim Birkhead and Bob Montgomerie mostly blame school science teaching for an increase in scientific fraud (“School for scandal”, Features, 7 August). They correctly determine that fact-based teaching...
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Crushed by debt burden
The human wrecking ball David Willetts is lobbying for universities to “buy” student loan debt (“Willetts’ loan book plan: capital idea or half-baked notion?”, News, 7 August) and wants the...
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Tips for longevity
Your article “Turnitin ‘nears end of charmed life’ amid complaints over cost” (News, 31 July) might be because Turnitin has diversified from being a focused plagiarism detection service to become a...
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Loans in everyone’s interest
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has been warning the government for years that most teachers who don’t become senior leaders will have their student loans written off. Now it seems that...
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Nonsensical pay gap between v-cs and staff
Michael Shattock characterises the large pay gap between vice-chancellors and lecturers as “out of hand” (“Bad result in student numbers game can still mean a pay rise”, News, 7 August). As a retired...
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The week in higher education - 14 August 2014
BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time became the unlikely subject of accusations over racist subtexts. The Daily Mail reported on 5 August that Ben Pitcher, senior lecturer in sociology at the...
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News in brief - 14 August 2014
Source: AlamyGaza conflictNUS supports boycott of IsraelThe National Union of Students has voted to support a boycott of Israel. The union’s national executive council voted on 4 August, during the...
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Clearing: bulk of applicants are older
Students who go straight to clearing in the search for a university place are more likely to be aged over 21, male, from England, and come from disadvantaged backgrounds than those using the standard...
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Refer-a-friend schemes: wise or desperate?
Glyndwr University offers £200 to entice new students with US-style marketing technique
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University College London silent on fate of convicted professor
Future of Gennadij Raivich, a neuroscientist with a sideline as a private sperm donor, uncertain after conviction for sexual assault
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MP criticises treatment of Bedfordshire during overseas student recruitment inquiry
Sector leaders alarmed at ‘inappropriate’ naming of university while Home Office visa audit was ongoing
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Newcastle University relaunches physics degree as student demand increases
Surge in interest in STEM subjects prompts reopening of course from 2015
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Campus close-up: London College of Fashion
From female students in Lebanon to women in prison, the institution is reaching new audiences through its outreach activities
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Funding drought to hit rural Australia worst, mission group leader warns
The chief of the Regional Universities Network on the impact of the Coalition’s planned reforms
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Amity University seeks site in London for 5,000-student campus
Indian private university searches for site as it signals an interest in partnerships with UK institutions