The week in higher education - 22 August 2013
The Daily Mail exposed a premium-rate telephone hotline that has caused outrage among parents. Frustrated teenagers who dialled the number were kept on the line for up to 50 minutes, after being...
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Coalition all smiles as signs point to record recruitment
High fees prove no object to demand, but student standards may invite scrutiny
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Pearson head silently probes UEL’s Cyprus campus closure
University of East London asks Sir David Melville to investigate international activities
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A timely look under the bonnet
A-level results day and clearing offered insights into the gremlins, glitches and successes of the new fees and funding system
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Workloads: 9 to 5 is far from reality for scientists
Data show how much work conservation biologists do outside office hours
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The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills, by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu
Kitty Stewart on how belt-tightening means life-shortening for some
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Election gives scant cause for hope Down Under
Higher education could face more cuts after next month’s polls, many fear
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Complaints undeclared by university 'game players'
Critics say universities are ‘not playing fair’
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Why are there so few female vice-chancellors?
How long before search committees stop assuming that the right man for the top university job is a man?
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Concern at proposed passport checks by landlords
Home Office bid would set huge hurdles for overseas students seeking private rentals, warns UKCISA
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Why I’m quitting the academy
Alessandra Lopez y Royo feels that money-obsessed universities are killing off integrity, honesty and mutual support
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Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution, by Richard J. Williams
Annmarie Adams on one man’s quest to find places where form meets libido
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The same unsavoury menu
We write as a group of concerned academics who find themselves unable to resolve a difficult academic dispute and are hoping to find guidance from the community of scholarship.Overall student...
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Making Capitalism Fit For Society, by Colin Crouch
Chris Pierson considers a pitch for ‘assertive social democracy’ in an age dominated by neoliberalism
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Oxford students deny role of class in elite admissions
Undergraduates ‘reproduce social inequality’, paper argues