Ideology: the enemy of a sane funding system
We must return to first principles to develop a fair method of paying for higher education, argues Bahram Bekhradnia
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31 July 2014
Weathering the storm - University whistleblowers reflect on the fallout
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Your doctorate’s been doctored
In a shock move, the governors of our university have revoked the honorary doctorate that was bestowed upon the minister for science and universities, David Willetts, shortly after his accession to...
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University of Cambridge plans formal teaching-only posts
Academic says the move is a ‘huge change’ for the institution
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Universities are top destination for government R&D spending
Universities have secured an increasing share of government expenditure on research and development since 2001, according to data from the Office for National Statistics
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Dropout rate tumbles, but not among IT crowd
Hefce figures show overall attrition rate down to 6.6 per cent but computer science struggles to improve retention
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The high costs of courage
Academic whistleblowers face ostracism and curtailed careers until the system fully recognises the value of more transparency
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The week in higher education - 31 July 2014
Barely two weeks after stepping down as minister for universities and science, David Willetts has advocated selling off student debt to universities so that institutions have a “direct financial...
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An ill-advised boycott
Israel’s wall in the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza are aimed at separating Palestinians from Israelis. Tom Hickey and others (“Shift in opinion over boycott in Israel”, Letters, 24 July) want to...
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Stars and stripes
Your analysis in “Lands of opportunity: transatlantic comparison of university investments in spin-offs” (News, 24 July), stating that US universities invest twice as much in research for each spin-...
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News in brief - 31 July 2014
ESRC appointmentElliott unveiled as chief executiveJane Elliott has been unveiled as the next chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Elliott is director of the Centre...
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Sighs of the times
As the author of two books forthcoming in the Warwick Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities series, I can confirm – as stated in the article “Writers’ block: description of an academic struggle...
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Disobedient Objects at the V&A: knit your own revolution
Shahidha Bari on a thoughtfully assembled tour of dissent in all its handcrafted, inflatable, gorilla-masked, badge-bedecked glory
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World in brief - 31 July 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesMore join Israel boycott movementThe African Literature Association has become the latest US-based scholarly organisation to back an academic boycott of Israel. A resolution...