14 - 21 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Surprise order of Bath has landed us with a right royal chancer
Joanna Lewis asks whether appointing ‘a decent enough upper-class numpty’ as chancellor is the best her alma mater can do
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Big picture from all angles
Humanities must embrace interdisciplinarity and reclaim their key role in our fractured world, says Michael Worton
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GMC may expand sanctions for failing UK medical schools
Regulator to review range of options for institutions falling short on quality measures
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Institute of the Arts Barcelona makes pitch to UK performing arts students
New UK-validated for-profit college to sell itself on sun, sea and low fees
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Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart
Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective
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The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion
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Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt
An effort to blame German thinkers for Nazism revives a discredited tradition, says Richard J. Evans
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Hepi days, as new partners boost thinktank
The Higher Education Policy Institute has mounted a successful drive to recruit more university partners, with the institutions helping to secure the independent thinktank’s long-term future.
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Congress opens door to US open access
A bill has been introduced into the United States Congress that would require most papers describing publicly-funded research to be made open access within six months of publication.
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Costs of new fees system outweigh the benefits, economists warn
The short-term benefits to the government of increasing student fees in England will be outweighed 6.5 times over by the long-term costs of the new system, according to a new report.
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Beware the student employability agenda, debate hears
The promotion of student employability by universities is “a problem” and the growing power of the student voice amounts to “surveillance” of lecturers, an academic has warned.
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PM hails new arrivals to Futurelearn
David Cameron has welcomed news that five more universities have signed up to offer courses on Futurelearn, the UK’s massive open online course provider.
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India partnerships launched on Cameron visit
UK universities have announced a series of research partnerships and scholarships to coincide with the prime minister’s visit to India to bolster trade and education links.
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