Swiss count cost of defying EU border rules
Shut out of Horizon 2020, researchers ponder fallout of anti-immigration vote
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Pathways to profit
The stealthy rise of private pre-degree courses
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Regent’s Park place for a leader who can command respect
Deputy v-c at Regent’s University London must be a strong scholar and able ‘ambassador’. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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20 March 2014
Lucrative shots - The stealthy rise of private pre-degree pathway courses
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World in brief - 20 March 2014
AustraliaPostgrad funding ‘deeply flawed’The allocation of government supported postgraduate places in Australia is deeply flawed, irrational and inequitable and in dire need of an overhaul,...
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Not a headline act
“The week in higher education” (13 March) notes that two Oxford pro vice-chancellors rebutted Luke Johnson’s claims “that the university had been slow to adapt to the world of online learning” by...
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Safeguarding patient data
The Medical Research Council’s Sir John Savill (“Duty to share data”, Letters, 6 March) claims that MRC-funded research will use “rigorously de-identified data in an approved research environment...
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Student insights
Sarah Moore’s point about the tendency to caricature students is well made (“Beware the caricature: students need nurturing, not negativity, to thrive”, Opinion, 13 March). Not only have the same...
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Close-up on bursaries
Amanda Chetwynd and Peter Diggle (“Bursaries’ individual impact”, Letters, 13 March) are mistaken: the Office for Fair Access’ powerful new analysis in our interim report on the effect of bursaries...
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Independence and quality
Regarding the article “Private pair claim more public cash than LSE” (6 February), which looked at the support received by students at private providers from the Student Loans Company. We would like...
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Serfs up
When I was personally exposed to zero hours contracts two years ago, my reaction was “I thought serfdom had been abolished” (“It’s casual, and that’s a problem”, Leader, 13 March). Such contracts may...
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Small Business Charter Awards honour SME partnerships
Association of Business Schools will recognise institutions’ support for small firms and local economy
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History for tomorrow’s world
Ice cores from 11,700 years ago aid the climate change debate, but the recent past has its own share of lessons, says Howard P. Segal
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Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature, by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy
Jon Turney on the possibilities, real and imagined, of engineering the building blocks of life