Sterile debate
Vince Cable thinks that nurses having degrees is “just qualification inflation” (“Vince Cable slams ‘qualification inflation’ in ‘standard’ professions”, 13 November). It is unfortunate that he is...
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Independent conclusions
Gillian Evans makes some interesting observations in relation to the Higher Education Policy Institute report on regulation I wrote with Roger Brown (“Hepi hits the buffer”, Letters, 14 November)....
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V-cs come and go but staff keep discipline
While acknowledging that the chair of a university board of governors must always formally support the record of an outgoing vice-chancellor, the statement by Clive Jones, London Metropolitan...
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The week in higher education - 21 November 2013
The University of Cambridge has long been a recruiting base for would-be spies, but now it seems that it is students themselves who are the focus of espionage efforts, The Guardian reported on 15 ...
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Odds and quads - 21 November 2013
Images of pineapples can be found all over Wolfson College, Cambridge
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Open University to shut ‘outstanding’ PGCE course
Institution follows Bath and offers another worrying lesson for teacher training
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Gender breakdown by subject area
The gender make-up of the student population in different subject areas has been highlighted in a Department for Education report
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Oxford pro v-c 'interested' in truly variable fees
Sally Mapstone throws her weight behind calls to move beyond £9,000 fees cap
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Education policy and research are linked in online
The Economics of Higher Education network aims to highlight neglected areas of economic research on the sector
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Cambridge shuts transfer window on trainee medics
London partners unhappy as university scraps ‘unfit for purpose’ model
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Oxford mulls Thatcher naming rights and wrongs
‘Parliament of dons’ bypassed in decision-making process
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University of Oxford’s black pioneers
Uncovering tales of ancient university’s scholars of colour
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Report urges engineering to concentrate on fresh materials
But niche learning may not play well in jobs market, expert warns