Great Britten
Yes, there is more worth saying about the great composer’s complex character, says Kate Kennedy
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Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing The Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker
Steve Redhead on how the increasing sophistication of military technology affects modern warfare
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UCU ire at Kingston University plan to cut principal lecturer, reader titles
Union says changes will lead to demotion and pay cuts. Jack Grove reports
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Creative accountability
What does it mean for a drawing or a cabaret act to count in the REF? Matthew Reisz meets scholars whose enquiries are intertwined with their creative endeavours
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Rich pickings?
New austerity measures could wreak havoc on BIS’ stretched finances. By John Morgan and Jack Grove
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Still the Second Sex
Men still dominate philosophy: it must end, department head Jenny Saul tells Paul Jump
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7 March 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Moocs may cut out recruitment middle man
Free online courses may help universities to recruit more overseas students directly by helping to forge links with potential applicants, universities and science minister David Willetts has told an...
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For-profit advice: deal careful hand on SLC cash
‘Draconian’ numbers cap could snuff out sector, coalition warned
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Hefce expects glut of shared services schemes
Universities plan cost-sharing groups once VAT exemption rules are clarified. By Jack Grove
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Physicist Dave Charlton takes over Cern’s Atlas project
University of Birmingham professor appointed post-Higgs boson ‘spokesperson’. By Paul Jump
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News in brief
Office for Fair AccessNine new faces in advisory dozenThe head of an Oxford college is one of nine new members of an advisory group on university access. Sir Ivor Crewe, master of University College...
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Post-92 academics report greatest stress over lack of autonomy
Academics at post-1992 universities are less happy about levels of management control than staff at older institutions, a study has found.
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Immigration forecast: ridge of Right pressure
If academic colleagues are wondering why the sector’s extensive lobbying to get overseas students reclassified as non-immigrants is being so strongly resisted by the government, look no further than...
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Mixed blessings
We would like to respond to your recent cover story “Primed, but not suspect” (28 February). Last year we published a critical paper in the journal Review of General Psychology about another popular...