Lion shares
My pet is a well-known saintly scholar, although he is getting old and whines when our students are not admiring him (“A lick and a premise”, Opinion, 28 November). But his grey whiskers and wrinkled...
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Red tape reification
What is a university for? For the development and dissemination of knowledge and the nurturing of critical, synthetic and analytic thinking. This is done by researchers and teachers who are often one...
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Ethical editing
An interesting debate has been sparked by “WikiTweaks: PR staff wield the airbrush for warts and all removal” (News, 21 November). As Stephen Waddington, president-elect of the Chartered Institute of...
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Loaded questions
“Carry on screaming: burden of assessment proof heavier now than in 2008” (News, 28 November) is spot on: I am one of those “caffeine-addled” research administrators your coverage characterises,...
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Beyond belief
Open letter to the UK’s vice-chancellorsDear vice-chancellors, you should repudiate unequivocally the abhorrent guidance on external speakers recently issued by the publicly funded body that claims...
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Signal and noise in the lecture theatre
In a tone characteristic of many contemporary educationalists when proselytising about their bête noire, Graham Gibbs claims that the lecture is a demonstrably ineffective pedagogic form that in some...
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News in brief - 5 December 2013
European Commission awardsWinning formula for HRAlmost 90 UK universities have been awarded the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research accolade. Ten institutions won the award for the first...
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The week in higher education - 5 December 2013
Any economic recovery is apparently unlikely to make Britons happier. The Daily Telegraph reported on 28 November that Eugenio Proto, associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick,...
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Alternative economics
The Head of our Economics Department, Professor Patrick Freedperson, has vigorously defended the present government’s implementation of the student loan scheme.He admitted that there were “cynical...
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Coalition hits emergency brake on private numbers
BIS admits scale of planned recruitment was ‘unaffordable’
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British Council cites cost reasons for declining Indian numbers
Poll of more than 10,000 students shows visa crackdown is not the biggest hurdle
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MINT with a policy hole
As more emerging economies get their own acronym, perhaps some high-powered advice for Cameron et al will hit home
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Labour plans long-term move to graduate tax, says Byrne
Shadow universities minister also vows to tackle overseas recruitment barrier
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Horizon 2020 provisions for humanities criticised
Lack of interdisciplinarity and pared funds a cause of concern for social sciences