News in brief - 16 January 2014
Doctoral training centresIt pays to recycleAt least 19 additional centres for doctoral training in engineering and science were announced by universities and science minister David Willetts on 9...
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Material limits
In her review of Robert Bartlett’s Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?, a study of the Christian cult of saints from the martyrs to the Reformation (Books, 19/26 December), Helen Fulton helpfully...
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Russian research risks
Sheila Fitzpatrick has written an enthralling and lightly humorous account, A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia, of the trials and tribulations of researching in the Soviet archives...
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We have students’ backs
In reference to Daniel Sokol’s letter “Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles” (2 January): in my experience, student advisers almost always assist in “the drafting of the critical ‘appeal...
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Immigrant songs
In relating how scholars from outside the European Union struggle with the UK’s visa regime, the feature “Life on the edge” (2 January) focuses on harsh rejections, administrative errors and...
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Inadequacy and anger
I thoroughly agree with the basic tenets of the feature “I shouldn’t really be here” (9 January). A group of us at the European Association for Institutional Research recently identified that we all...
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Points to consider in widening participation
The article “Poorer students present ‘financial risk’ ” (9 January) provides a thought-provoking insight into the link between retention and low socio-economic status. It focuses on higher education...
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Mind your own FoI business!
Shocking new statistics reveal that our university leads the field in the number of times it has refused to answer Freedom of Information requests
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Let’s break down the numbers
Studying how subjects have waxed and waned in popularity reveals some striking changes and some difficult questions
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Head denies rigging assessment thresholds in redundancy dispute
Dismissed Queen Mary lecturer Fanis Missirlis claims appraisal metrics set at level to deliberately exclude him
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Fast-track Liverpool fellows free to focus on research
Early career life scientists have teaching and administrative burden lifted
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Campus close-up: Birmingham City University
A new campus site is taking shape in the ‘learning quarter’ of Birmingham city centre
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Brazil’s home-grown Mooc, Veduca, has high hopes
Boosting skills and access are the aims of a new Portuguese-medium platform
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Posthumous criticism of cancer researcher’s links
The late public health specialist Patricia Buffler is alleged to have had conflicts of interest