News in brief - 17 October 2013
Immigration billMay day ‘discrimination’Measures to tackle illegal immigration are “discriminatory” to international students and send the message that they are not welcome in the UK. That was the...
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Imperial considers REF trade-off between quality and quantity
Minutes suggest the pros and cons of strategies for submission
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Campus round-up - 17 October 2013
Source: Russell SachGreater transparencyA “scientific glassblower” at the University of Southampton is one of about 15 skilled workers still employed by UK universities to produce glassware in-house...
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Grant winners - 17 October 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsHumanitiesAward winner: Andrew ChamberlainInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £246,725An investigation of ancient animal mummies using diagnostic...
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REF and policymakers overlook state-funded research
Vital academic work still missed by impact criteria and civil servants, forum hears
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THE Scholarly Web - 17 October 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Joan Thirsk, 1922-2013
One of the leading social historians of her generation has died
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What we should ask on student feedback forms
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the inanity of questionnaires assessing teaching
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What a bunch of amateurs
Andrew Morgan laments “the continuing scandal that students are asked to pay £3,000 a term to be taught by amateur staff lacking any significant training in the theory or practice of teaching,...
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Handmaiden’s tale
Your review of Helen Small’s The Value of the Humanities summarises the five main arguments made in support of the discipline (“Calm voice lauds humanities’ part in public conversation”, News, 26...
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Asking for it
It is hardly surprising that the pace of growth in anglophone taught master’s courses offered in continental Europe is picking up (“A warm Euro welcome - and in English, too”, News, 10 October).For...
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Dawning diversification
We noted with interest your article on the Athena SWAN charter and its mounting influence on UK academia, including plans to extend the scheme beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
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Thorny fact-checking
It is surprising that Marianne Elliott thinks that criticism of the late Peter Hart’s research is “vilification” (“No word for what we’re doing”, Books, 3 October). Times Higher Education has twice...
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Spirits of the market
Your piece on essay mills is a little harsh (“We can write it for you wholesale”, 10 October): after all, they simply satisfy a demand in an education market. In the same way, ghostwriters, often...