Osborne admits numbers plan omits lost repayments
The government’s plan to fund extra student numbers by selling loans omits billions of pounds in lost repayments, the chancellor has admitted.
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THE books podcast: Barbara Graziosi interview
Download the podcastBarbara Graziosi, professor of Classics at Durham University and director for the arts and humanities at its Institute of Advanced Studies, joins Times Higher Education’s books...
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Gender segregation row: UUK publishes legal advice
Universities UK has published legal advice which backs its controversial guidance on the segregation of men and women at campus events.
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Student loans guardians savaged by Hodge
The government’s claim it can fully fund extra student places by selling loans is “wrong”, according to the MP in charge of examining public accounts.
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THE podcast: 12 December 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThe removal of the student number cap in England, the death of Nelson Mandela, and our interview with master of St Benet’s Oxford hall, Werner Jeanrond, are all up for discussion...
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Neuroscientist Thelma Lovick wins tribunal victory over Birmingham
Judgment says university ‘inadequately investigated’ misconduct case
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Beware ‘brain-based learning’
Enthusiasm for ‘neuroeducation’ risks blinding people to its potentially limited efficacy, argues Steven Rose
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Willetts astonished by elite reaction to expansion
Russell Group critical of abolition of student numbers cap
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The Gods of Olympus: A History, by Barbara Graziosi
Susan Deacy on true immortality
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News in brief - 12 December 2013
AustraliaOppositional positionCuts of A$2.3 billion (£1.3 billion) to Australian universities planned by Labor when in government are unlikely to go through after the party, now in opposition,...
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Art and science: ‘two cultures’ with shared values
Forcing students to choose sides leaves them, and society, poorer, says Christopher Bigsby
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Laurence Coupe, Richard Joyner, R. C. Richardson, John Shand and David Shotter...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Eeny, meeny, miny…
My very good friend Steve Smith is reported as saying that only three people understand the resource accounting and budgeting charge and two of them are mad (“That sinkhole feeling”, Leader, 28 ...
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Dance off, priced out
I read “Morris miners” with concern (Campus round-up, 28 November). There may be a number of reasons why morris dancing is considered unfashionable and perhaps is dying out. Practices and...
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Massaging the feedback
I note that a number of articles and opinion pieces in THE in recent months have dealt with the value (or lack thereof) of student feedback/evaluation questionnaires.Many years ago, I learned how...