The week in higher education - 12 June 2014
A student philosophy society named after Friedrich Nietzsche has been barred from meeting at University College London after it was branded “fascist”, news website The Daily Beast reported. The...
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One good thing after another
“Good things are here to stay!”That was how our Deputy Head of Student Experience, Nancy Harbinger, responded to the recent declaration by David Willetts, the universities and science minister, that...
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Perry Else, 1959-2014
A leading scholar in the field of children’s play has died
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Q&A with Lord Stafford
We speak to the next chancellor of Staffordshire University
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THE Scholarly Web - 12 June 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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A plague of tapeworm sentences
Brian Bloch ponders the convoluted tangle that permeates scholarly German writing
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Pre-election policy debate may be on mute
Panel speakers fear v-cs’ silence presages a lack of pre-election policy debate
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Match-funding threat to doctoral training
Universities UK warns that new funding models may create ‘significant financial risk’ for institutions
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First-year taught postgraduate student numbers 2007-13
Despite fears about a slow-down in international demand for UK university places, there were still more overseas students starting taught postgraduate courses in the UK in 2012-13 than in 2007-08,...
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International institutions unite to bolster liberal arts
16-member Global Academy of Liberal Arts aims to help reassert value of non-STEM study
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Welsh all-for-one model to save sinking peers ditched
‘Draconian’ idea to pool universities’ financial resources to rescue failing institutions abandoned
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City’s credit-free study appeals to part-timers
Offering courses without credit afforded City University London more flexibility
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The scholars who put ‘useless’ study to work
Tales of activism and optimism and an eminent scholar’s defence of the humanities aired at Living With the Cuts conference
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Open access publisher brings scholarship to developing world
New mobile app helps a Cambridge press offer free digital monographs even to those without computers
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Spain’s student grants: better late than never?
Federal minister blames Catalonia for payment delays in reformed student-aid system