India: Modi appoints ex-TV star to higher education brief
Former Indian TV star Smriti Irani will be the minister responsible for the nation’s universities and colleges in Narendra Modi’s new government
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BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers take to stage
Scheme offers young researchers the chance to build media profile
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Call for 15-fold increase in Britons studying in China
Government intervention after study suggests lack of language skills costing UK billions
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Technology’s value to humanities must be made clearer
Melissa Terras to call for ‘better communication’ of benefits
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Cambridge centre for postdocs opens
The University of Cambridge has opened a new postdoctoral centre for early career researchers.
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QAA investigating private college at centre of public funds row
But also emerges that watchdog passed LSST for educational oversight last September
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Twelve technologies set to revolutionise higher education in Australia...and beyond
Report identifies emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in tertiary institutions across Australia
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Glasgow School of Art fire prompts anguish
There has been widespread dismay from artists, students and politicians after the listed Mackintosh building of the Glasgow School of Art caught fire
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Institute of English Studies planned closure put on hold
‘Wider range of options’ to be explored by University of London
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IOP launches ‘offsetting’ scheme to cut cost of open access
A publisher has launched a pilot with 21 UK universities to reduce their subscription costs in proportion to the amount of open access fees they pay
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Nottingham apologises after personal data leak
The University of Nottingham has had to apologise for accidentally releasing personal data to around 13,000 people.
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‘Place-hacker’ prosecution ‘attack on intellectual freedom’
Oxford academic at centre of case says ‘clearly punitive investigation’ undermined ethnographic research
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Watchdog called in on private college use of student loans
The UK’s public spending watchdog has been asked to investigate possible misuse of public money in the student loans system by for-profit colleges.
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Oxford students’ union breaks NUS link
The University of Oxford has become the latest higher education institution to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students.
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UCL and IoE merger on track for December
Governing councils give the green light to look at detail of deal