UK R&D spending: Less on swords, more on ploughshares
Spending on defence research and development in the UK has declined by 57 per cent since 1989, data from the Office for National Statistics show.
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Composition and decomposition
Nicholas Royle on the rise of creative writing and the need for fresh forms of ‘creative reading’
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Higher education pay survey 2013
With a few exceptions, vice-chancellors’ remuneration did not rise vertiginously in 2011-12 - a good thing politically. But are they still paid too much compared with their peers?
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Death or Disability: The ‘Carmentis Machine’ and Decision-making for Critically Ill Children by Dominic Wilkinson
Deborah Bowman praises the compassion and logic offered in deciding outcomes for sick children
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28 March 2013
Uneasy lies the head - are vice-chancellors paid too much or not enough?
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Degrees of comparability
The OECD’s Ahelo project aims to compare graduate quality internationally
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Professorial pay rises twice as fast as rest
REF factor may explain growing wage differential
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Greenwich joins University Alliance
The University Alliance mission group has gained another new member from Million+ while also announcing it is signing a partnership with its Australian counterpart.
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Tribunal slams academic for bringing anti-Semitism case
A Jewish academic who claimed the UCU’s policy on Palestine constituted harassment has been rebuked by an employment tribunal for misusing the legal process
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Sussex given injunction over protests
The University of Sussex has been granted an injunction that it says will pave the way towards ending the seven-week occupation of its Bramber House conference centre.
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Ethnic minorities ‘less likely’ to gain Russell Group places
Students from ethnic minorities are less likely to gain places at top universities than white pupils with the same A-level grades, a new study has claimed.
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UKBA to be split in two
The UK Border Agency is to be split in two, between a visa body and a law enforcement body, and brought back under the control of Home Office ministers.
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London Met manager warns against consultation false hope
The project manager who oversaw a huge overhaul of London Metropolitan University’s undergraduate teaching has said that universities need to be careful not to raise false hopes when they promise to...
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Unions set out pay stall for 2013-14
Unions representing higher education staff are asking for a pay rise in 2013-14 that is likely to be worth more than 3 per cent.
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Inside Higher Ed: Coursera's Contractual Elitism
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed