News in brief - 19 June 2014
Post-study work visasMPs set to launch inquiryMPs are to hold an inquiry into the closure of the post-study work route for international students. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration will...
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Grant winners - 19 June 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Daniel NusseyInstitution: University of EdinburghValue: £639,824Life-long telomere dynamics, health and fitness in a...
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The week in higher education - 19 June 2014
The University of East Anglia scooped the top prize at this year’s Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2014. Held at Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 17 June, UEA picked up the...
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Vice-chancellors speak out!
Our vice-chancellor has vigorously rebutted the suggestion that vice-chancellors have failed to speak out on higher education policy.He told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that he particularly...
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19 June 2014
Immersive research - Laurie Taylor on the endangered art of ethnography
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Taylor & Francis apologises after ‘censorship’ debate
Journal’s editors withdraw threat to resign after publisher apologises for obstructing report critical of industry practices
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Campus close-up: Coventry University
‘Captain Cyborg’ Kevin Warwick on how a new research focus and 200 extra staff can help the institution rise up the rankings
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The competing bids for Obama’s presidential library
Jon Marcus reports on the Chicago institutions battling it out for the Barack Obama presidential library and museum
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Sir David Eastwood, James Kneale, David Lewin, Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Terrorism awareness begins at home
Teachers can reveal the history of domestic terrorism and address its impact, says Lee Maril
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Tips for detecting and beating plagiarism
Lecturer Ann Rogerson on the telltale signs of the ghostwriter’s presence. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Face time with students in the digital age
Kevin Fong suggests ways of satisfying the contact time cravings of today’s Young Ones
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40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant
Tim Birkhead advocates long-term scientific studies, particularly for natural selection observations
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Listen in Terror: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Broadcasting to the Digital Age, by Richard J. Hand
Peter Hutchings is spooked by a collection of horror broadcasts from the 1920s to the present day
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Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century, by Clare Debenham
Carmel Quinlan on the social and cultural history of the birth control movement from 1921 to 1973