When push comes to shove
"I like to think that my team will soon have it down to a fine art."That was the confident forecast made by Brigadier T.W. Trouncing, our Head of Campus Security, at a recent university seminar...
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Alison Lee, 1952-2012
"A truly major scholar" who transformed our understanding of doctoral research has died.Alison Lee was born on 25 July 1952 and brought up in the small Tasmanian town of Burnie before going on to...
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Fulfilling the need for people who lead (1 of 3)
Jack Grove's feature "Breeding leaders" ( September) told a fascinating and entirely credible story of successful career journeys emanating from certain "hub" universities. The emphasis on the...
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Fulfilling the need for people who lead (2 of 3)
I would like to correct the impression that the University of Warwick had no track record of producing vice-chancellors until quite recently.John Forty, who was foundation professor of physics at the...
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Fulfilling the need for people who lead (3 of 3)
Was it an ironic statement that the illustration for the article on university leaders featured no women?If so, the same irony made its way into the article - only one woman's name appeared in the...
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Fairness and loans
The feature "Red alert" ( September) considered the financial model underpinning the new tuition fees regime but questions must also be asked about "fairness" and the political sustainability of the...
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Keep that door open (1 of 2)
An Ipsos MORI poll published earlier this week showing that children from single-parent families are nearly three times as likely to say that their family could not afford for them to enter higher...
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Keep that door open (2 of 2)
The government's higher education policy is looking increasingly threadbare. In July the myth that trebling tuition fees would have little impact on applications to university was exploded when...
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Right Hear, right now
Universities UK and GuildHE have just published the final report of a steering group overseeing the development of the Higher Education Achievement Report (Hear), an electronic document that provides...
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Syrian scholars need help
The crisis in Syria has created an academic emergency, with the breakdown of higher education within the country and major obstacles facing Syrian scholars and students.In response, the Institute of...
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Campus round-up
University of East AngliaChained lettersA collection of letters that paints a vivid picture of 19th-century American slavery has gone on display in Norwich as part of Black History Month. The letters...
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Appointments
University of OxfordDouglas HiggsThe new director of the Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) at the University of Oxford has called it an honour to be chosen to...
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I'm an academic and I want to be proud of it
There was never a golden age in which academic values such as universalism and disinterestedness were not at risk, argues Bruce Macfarlane. But in an age of sponsorism and insecurity, all scholars...
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Revealed: for whom the bill tolls
The West’s elite institutions are paying the price for state funding cuts, our World University Rankings show
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From Where I Sit - Take and give
I have been back in Sydney this past month for the first time in seven years. One of the few non-family things I did was to visit the University of Sydney and call into its development office. It was...