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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14 - 21 March 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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21 March 2013
No hope to Nobel - how persistence can pay off for struggling hatchlings
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Culture: The Subject of Murder
Lisa Downing explains to Matthew Reisz how society’s unspoken prejudices are given voice in the discourse surrounding killers
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Protesters versus the strong arm of the law
Justice has been poorly served by the bloody-minded determination of the state to prosecute anti-fees demonstrators, argues Martin McQuillan
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Sussex students plan national demonstration
Campaigners at the University of Sussex plan to host a national demonstration against privatisation in higher education.
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University Campus Suffolk sets sail for independence
University Campus Suffolk is to begin the process of gaining its own degree-awarding powers, its board has confirmed.
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Government changes course on for-profit VAT
George Osborne’s budget has revealed that the government appears to be scrapping plans to grant VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers, a move that was aimed at exposing universities...
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Les Ebdon 'will not enhance’ access targets
Universities will not be asked to admit more students from deprived backgrounds in their new access agreements, the director of fair access has indicated.
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Craig Mahoney to be next UWS v-c
The chief executive of the Higher Education Academy is to be the new head of the University of the West of Scotland.