THE podcast: 21 March 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanPart-time student numbers, academics’ school reports, and commercialising research all feature on this Times Higher Education issue review. Chris Parr is joined by editor...
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Universities pay thrice for open access: Durham v-c
Christopher Higgins details academy’s cost burden to Booksellers Association conference
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Futurelearn’s boss on breaking into Moocs
Simon Nelson brings BBC experience to the launch of the UK’s first course platform. Chris Parr reports
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Echo of big brand sounds
Your latest set of World Reputation Rankings nicely demonstrate the circular reasoning that characterises much of the thinking about university reputations and branding. Your data come from asking...
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Grant winners - 21 March 2013
Royal SocietyResearch GrantsAward winner: Huiling ZhuInstitution: University of KentValue: £13,480Development of energy-efficient radio resource allocation algorithms Leverhulme TrustResearch...
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NUS can rebuild links between education and citizenship
Despite hard times and fruitless protest, there is still power in a union, argues David Reed
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Inflated offers students can’t refuse
Tutor warns of efforts to ‘sucker’ applicants as institutions game system
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Sex scandals and false accusations of abuse
Felipe Fernández-Armesto calls for clearer protocols in cases of suspected abuse
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Mass suicide bid averted
Death before dishonourOnly quick thinking by one of our campus security patrols has halted a mass suicide bid by 22 Poppleton academics.According to well-informed reports, the academics were seen...
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To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist by Evgeny Morozov
Tara Brabazon on the hypocrisy of digital utopianism
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University of the People on course for stability
Founder of free online university confident despite Mooc competition
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From 'no hope' to Nobel
Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon, who famously did not have his potential recognised, and five other scholars recall their school days and the characters that inspired them one way or another
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The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism by A. C. Grayling
Martin Cohen asks what is the point of using logic to dismantle religious belief?
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14 - 21 March 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Employability agenda isn’t working
Steve Sarson’s first-years were tasked with a CV exercise on study time, so he reminded them of the alternatives to the market