Standards and pay in public life
As vice-chancellors’ salaries creep up, do university heads risk the same fate as bankers in the court of public opinion?
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Bouncing back
One of our university’s leading physicists, Dr Helen Robards, has entered the debate about student loan repayments.Dr Robards told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that her interest was prompted by...
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Overhaul of metrics usage could cut frequency of REF
Chair of review into use of metrics suggests REF interval could be cut to once a decade
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East meets West in MBA for future masters of universe
‘Billionaires come to us to study’, Chinese business school dean says of his role in £77,000 joint course
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3 April 2014
Executive weighting - Are business-led boards to blame for tipping the scales on v-cs’ pay?
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Sir Graham Hills, 1926-2014
A former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, acclaimed for his efforts to widen access to higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, has died
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THE Scholarly Web - 3 April 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 3 April 2014
Undergraduate achievementDifferent classes’ different classesA new study indicates that state school pupils go on to get better degrees than private school peers with the same A-level grades. The...
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World in brief - 3 April 2014
United StatesYale professor changes courseUS massive open online course provider Coursera has appointed former Yale University president Richard Levin its chief executive officer. Professor Levin, 66...
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Grant winners - 3 April 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Rowland KaoInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £773,448Joint estimation of epidemiological and genetic...
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The week in higher education - 3 April 2014
Labour is to slash maximum tuition fees to £6,000 a year and may reduce them to as little as £4,000, The Sunday Times reported on 30 March. Ed Miliband, the party’s leader, is expected to pledge to...
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Inhale…and relax
Further to “Advice squad”, the feature about PhD supervision ( March). In 1988, when I still smoked, I had my PhD viva in the department of government at the University of Manchester. My supervisor,...
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Vital facts pinned down
Ray Stoneham worries that a “seismic shift to online discourse” will leave academics, who are not on first-name terms with modern-day referencing, “in their ivory towers calculating the number of...
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Unhappy resolution
I am a senior lecturer at a UK university who has been in post for more than 10 years. Until two years ago, I would have paid scant attention to the story “PhD scholarship appeal bid fails” (News,...