Grant winners - 26 June 2014
Action Medical ResearchAward winner: David W. CarmichaelInstitution: University College LondonValue: £164,035Epilepsy in children – improving scanning before surgeryAward winner: Elizabeth...
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Anthony Kelly, 1929-2014
The second vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, who steered his institution through the upheavals of the 1980s, has died
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Q&A with Sir Brian Hoskins
We speak to professor of meteorology at the University of Reading and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
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THE Scholarly Web - 26 June 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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A coherent whole
The University of London has at no point recommended that the Warburg Institute’s unique collection be absorbed into Senate House Library (“Library saved from Nazis awaits its fate”, News, 19 June)....
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Seeking full disclosure
Adrian Deeny of University College London makes a plea for accurate reporting of animal experiments, in light of coverage in the Daily Mirror of a report on cat research in the UK (“An open and shut...
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On the right path
The University of South Florida has been collaborating with INTO University Partnerships since 2010. USF’s decision to partner with INTO did not arise from a “desperate” position as characterised in...
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Be more dog
I read with sympathy and agreement Sir Roderick Floud’s article “From serendipitous excellence to a world-class omnishambles” (Opinion, 19 June), in which he talked about the difficulties caused by...
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A little less conversation
Given the absence of any explanation from the University of Warwick for Thomas Docherty’s suspension (“Employer gags critic of ‘authoritarian’ sector”, News, 19 June), the suspicion must be that he...
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Closure is no balm for Open University staff
I am one of the people affected by the closure of The Open University’s East Grinstead regional centre (“OU staff express anger over centre closure”, 19 June).A university spokesman cited the “...
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News in brief - 26 June 2014
Course league table proposalRankings that are just the jobAn adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their graduates’ employment rates and earnings. A...
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The week in higher education - 26 June 2014
The president of the Oxford Union will face no further action from police after he was arrested on suspicion of raping a fellow student and attacking another, The Daily Telegraph reported on 19 June...
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Tales of continental drift
The globalised academy offers ambitious scholars a plethora of opportunities, yet expat life is nothing if not unpredictable
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Turing party?
In what he described as “a major research breakthrough”, our Head of Computer Science, Professor L. E. D. Scart, has raised serious doubts about our vice-chancellor.Professor Scart told our reporter...