THE podcast: 28 November 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThe expansion of student numbers at private colleges, some universities’ snobby approach to credit transfer, and the launch of a national higher education computer network are all...
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Student loan forecasts ‘consistently’ wrong, says NAO
Ministers have been accused of “industrial scale incompetence” after a damning report on student loans was released by the public spending watchdog
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28 November 2013
Academics sans frontières - Is self-censorship the price researchers must pay to access politically sensitive regions?
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Odds and quads - 28 November 2013
Born in 1937, Ed Ruscha began his career within pop art and has since become a leading figure across the visual arts through drawings, “word paintings”, photographs and films. In 2013 he appeared in...
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THE Scholarly Web - 28 November 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Patricia Buffler, 1938-2013
A leading researcher on childhood cancers has died
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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-...