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...
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Consider the alternative
Having read “Universities pull out of EU’s ‘unjustifiable’ U- Multirank” (News, 7 February), I scanned the Times Higher Education archive and was surprised to find almost universally negative reports...
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Necessity, not a luxury
Postgraduate education in the UK faces unprecedented challenges (“‘Postgraduate premium’ fuels vicious cycle of social inequality”, News, 7 February). There is a crisis in funding and access....
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Hostile witnesses
Might the “hostility, sometimes bordering on hatred” that troubles Peter Crisp, chief executive and dean of BPP Law School, be due, at least in part, to public pronouncements made by his predecessors...
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External reassignment
Who would be an external examiner in higher education? At Keele University we are no longer allowed to ask our externals to adjudicate or advise upon final-year undergraduate students who are...
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Sine of confusion
Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London, notes that an explicit commitment to “interdisciplinarity” will help undergraduates studying its new bachelor’s of arts and sciences “...
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Payment by results
Surely there is a way to regulate “grade grubbing” to the benefit of all? (“Please professor, I want some more”, News, 28 February.) An enhanced assessment process could be offered where, for...
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Grant winners - 7 March 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Andrew JudgeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £532,390Models of care for the delivery of...
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Post-Arab Spring academic freedom examined at conference in Tunisia
University of Manouba hosts conference as dean Habib Kazdaghli faces trial said to ‘lack merit’. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (£133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Odds and quads - 7 March 2013
These items come from a few of the nearly 10,000 boxes of archival material that have just been donated by the international development charity Oxfam to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries...