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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Exit strategy: Wellcome head welcomes fresh challenges
Wellcome Trust head looks back at a highly eventful decade in charge. Paul Jump reports
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For-profit warning on numbers cap
‘Draconian’ numbers cap could snuff out nascent sector, coalition warned. John Morgan reports
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Please ensure that students drink responsibly
Universities are condoning excessive drinking among undergraduates and failing to offer them adequate pastoral care, according to a survey of UK headteachers.Anthony Seldon, master of independent...
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Shared services savings may be counted in millions
Waves of cost-cutting schemes expected once VAT exemption rules are clarified. Jack Grove writes
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Post-Higgs, meet the new god of small things
Some might regard taking over the running of one of the experiments that revealed the existence of the Higgs boson particle as akin to pushing the dustcart after the Lord Mayor’s show.But not Dave...
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Stress test identifies remote management’s downsides
Institution’s senior management pledges to tackle ‘stress-inducing’ culture. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Professor says HR aware of bomber’s past
A London Metropolitan University professor suspended for his role in the appointment of a man convicted of terrorism has said it is “not credible” that the university’s human resources department did...
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Praise be to risk
Shoot first, mull later: Northampton chief speaks in praise of risky business. David Matthews writes
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Women liberated from history tell it like it was
An oral history archive that brings to life the voices of 60 women central to the Women’s Liberation Movement will be launched this week to coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March....
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The Dewey Dewey fog
On the shelf in staffing termsThere was confusion on campus last week over the eligibility of our library team for the 2013 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.Although “...
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From Where I Sit - The ethics of espousing horseplay
From where I sit, I can hear the clanking of old-fashioned brass bells, hung around the necks of a herd of ponies grazing contentedly in the field next door, while behind them the vast bulk of the...
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Open-access policy scrapes the barrel
A disastrous open-access policy lashes the promise of the digital age to an outmoded buggy of a model, laments Martin McQuillan
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Grade point accuracy: for the full picture of student achievement, honours alone are not enough, argues John Raftery
Add grade point averages to honours classification for a better snapshot of student achievement, says John Raftery
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If English becomes the only linguistic currency, the global academy will be debased, argues Toby Miller
English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual