Grant winners - 28 November 2013
Leverhulme TrustEarly Career FellowshipsThese offer salary costs for researchers at the beginning of their academic careers, providing them with the opportunity for advancement and enabling them to...
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News in brief - 28 November 2013
AustraliaSpread more thinly to go furtherAn Australian politician has defended the latest cuts to vocational course subsidies, arguing that funding will go further as a result. Peter Hall, skills...
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Campus round-up - 28 November 2013
Selfie consciousnessWhen the Oxford Dictionaries declared “selfie” – a photo of oneself, taken by oneself, usually on a smartphone – the 2013 Word of the Year, we used our Twitter account to ask for...
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News in brief - 28 November 2013
Latin American higher educationRectors ready to fly down to RioA major conference of university rectors will be held next year in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on higher education in Latin America and “...
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That sinkhole feeling
The absence of regulation and spiralling RAB costs threaten to undermine a growing sense of stability in the sector
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The week in higher education - 28 November 2013
His department’s sums might be in a muddle, but it seems David Willetts has committed a more unforgivable sin: creating a generation of teetotal, work-obsessed student bores. Assessing the impact of...
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Those colours have run
Your article about Kurdistan featured an image of the Saddam-era flag of Iraq (From where I sit, 21 November). It was replaced in 2008.Joe DochertyUniversity of Portsmouth
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Flawed oral tradition
I’ve just read “Darkling we watch” (Culture, 14 November). Duncan Wu uses the phrase “he administers cunnilingus on his girlfriend”. “Administers”? Cunnilingus isn’t medication or a local authority:...
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Ramsey growth model
I agree with Martin Cohen’s comment in his review of David Edmonds’ Would You Kill the Fat Man? that the author’s claim for Ludwig Wittgenstein being “the most influential philosopher in the Anglo-...
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Meet and greet
The Council for College and University English endorses the call for wider debate over issues affecting the discipline (“Constructive criticism”, Letters, 21 November). We would welcome the presence...
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Funding black holes
The paradox suggested by Piled Higher and Deeper (21 November), that travelling forward in time to peek at the results of your research would mean the research was never undertaken, is akin to the “...
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Moral economy
Robert Colls is right that the 50th anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class deserves to be marked and celebrated (“The Making and the man”, 21...
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Dog-eat-dog snarling
The hothouse rivalries and cut-throat competition that typify today’s university surely add fuel to the fire of abusive academic discourse (“Nasty, brutish and short”, 7 November).The struggle for...
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Market deficit
The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by Times Higher Education in the past two weeks (“Assets, liabilities and old age tensions”, 14 November; “Equity inequities”, 21 ...
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Police state actors
We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the arrest of Michael Chessum, president of the University of London Union, for allegedly organising a demonstration apparently contrary to the Public Order...