Peter Frank, 1934-2013
A leading authority on the Soviet Union (and Yorkshire fishing communities) has died
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Campus round-up - 5 December 2013
Source: © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield, DACS 2013 / © Sir Peter Blake, DACS 2013Modern mastersThe first public exhibition of one of the UK’s most important private collections of modern art has...
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Grant winners - 5 December 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and DeliveryResearch programmeAward winner: Martin C. GullifordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £349,926Cost-effectiveness of different...
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Lost in the timestream
Miriam David received her PhD from a small number of scholars within what was Queen Mary College, not the institution as a whole (“‘Miss’ no hit with revered alumna”, News, 28 November). How many who...
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Weights and measures
As someone who worked throughout his career at two small but excellent institutions (the universities of Sussex and St Andrews), I find it irritating to see grant income rankings that take no account...
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Lion shares
My pet is a well-known saintly scholar, although he is getting old and whines when our students are not admiring him (“A lick and a premise”, Opinion, 28 November). But his grey whiskers and wrinkled...
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Red tape reification
What is a university for? For the development and dissemination of knowledge and the nurturing of critical, synthetic and analytic thinking. This is done by researchers and teachers who are often one...
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Ethical editing
An interesting debate has been sparked by “WikiTweaks: PR staff wield the airbrush for warts and all removal” (News, 21 November). As Stephen Waddington, president-elect of the Chartered Institute of...
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Loaded questions
“Carry on screaming: burden of assessment proof heavier now than in 2008” (News, 28 November) is spot on: I am one of those “caffeine-addled” research administrators your coverage characterises,...
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Beyond belief
Open letter to the UK’s vice-chancellorsDear vice-chancellors, you should repudiate unequivocally the abhorrent guidance on external speakers recently issued by the publicly funded body that claims...
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Signal and noise in the lecture theatre
In a tone characteristic of many contemporary educationalists when proselytising about their bête noire, Graham Gibbs claims that the lecture is a demonstrably ineffective pedagogic form that in some...
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News in brief - 5 December 2013
European Commission awardsWinning formula for HRAlmost 90 UK universities have been awarded the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research accolade. Ten institutions won the award for the first...
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The week in higher education - 5 December 2013
Any economic recovery is apparently unlikely to make Britons happier. The Daily Telegraph reported on 28 November that Eugenio Proto, associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick,...
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Alternative economics
The Head of our Economics Department, Professor Patrick Freedperson, has vigorously defended the present government’s implementation of the student loan scheme.He admitted that there were “cynical...