There’s no distance left to run
The 1994 Group’s break-up reflects fragmentation in the sector and leaves the ‘elite’ tag to the Russell Group alone
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Research needs more poetry, not more cash
‘Big money’ grants foster ‘bookkeeping’ work at the expense of small-scale but potentially groundbreaking efforts, says Gary Thomas
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UCL leads grant income table
London research giant attributes success to interdisciplinary approach
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The week in higher education - 14 November 2013
Unions have called another nationwide strike for 3 December as part of a pay battle with higher education employers. As on 31 October, the University and College Union, Unite and Unison are all set...
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Universities must not repeat music’s costly online errors
Feargal Sharkey tells GuildHE conference of hits, myths and the cost of ‘free’ in the Mooc era
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Michael Ignatieff wins votes for honesty
Losing on the political stage has prompted public intellectual to change how he teaches
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Apprenticeships aimed at private students only
Some firms want only the ‘people their sons and daughters go to school with’
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14 November 2013
Here, let me show you - Mentoring: one-to-one guidance in a hostile world
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Campus round-up - 14 November 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesTake noteA pop-up record shop has been launched to promote work by music students. The NXShop, in South London’s New Cross, sells CDs and vinyl records made by those on the...
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THE Scholarly Web - 14 November 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Arthur Danto, 1924-2013
One of the leading philosophers of his generation has died
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Grant winners - 14 November 2013
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Sofia GripenbergInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £476,630Plant-eating insects and the structure of tropical plant communitiesAward...
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News in brief - 14 November 2013
United StatesQuick to the cutA US university has had to cancel classes for the spring term because of budgetary problems. Two weeks ago, just days before student registration began, directors and...
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Odds and quads - 14 November 2013
One of the greatest British writers of the 18th century, Samuel Johnson (1709-84) studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year before he ran out of money. He would later describe himself...
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News in brief - 14 November 2013
Scotland/Hong Kong partnershipResearch symbiosisMinisters from Scotland and Hong Kong have signed an agreement for researchers from the two countries’ universities to collaborate more closely....