Study of HE in FE questions whether students are making 'informed choices'
Students who undertake higher education in further education colleges may not be making informed choices, according to a major report commissioned by the government.
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Admissions of future liability
State cuts pushing US sector towards 'Ponzi'-style growth model, president claims. Jack Grove writes
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Local difficulties: are UK PhDs really second-rate?
HEC told of industry's complaints over quality, but MP rebuffs 'lazy' views. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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'Roller-coaster' pensions offer spills, not thrills
Stand-alone university pension schemes for non-academic support staff have a combined deficit of £1.1 billion, new analysis shows.
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Sage on the stage - your time is up
Ignore innovative and team-based learning at your peril, HEA conference hears. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Widening accessCornish lead in county fundingStudents in Cornwall could receive up to £3,000 each from their local council in a scheme that represents a first for a local authority under current...
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A special message
We have been asked to publish this message from Dr J.K. Easement, the chair of the university's Mitigating Circumstances CommitteeWill all supervisors who wish to claim mitigating assessment...
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Wronged academic not in the clear yet
Your moving interview with the Colombian academic Miguel Ángel Beltrán ("Arrested, beaten, caged - but the state could not break him", News, 5 July) highlights the dangers academics around the world...
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Write it for you wholesale
While I agree with George MacDonald Ross and Jude Carroll that creating independent, enthusiastic learners and redesigning assessments to make plagiarism more difficult are important, I fear that "...
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Making time for Plan B (1 of 2)
I read with interest "Making other plans" (14 June), which provided an overview of the need for many with higher degrees to accept and prepare for careers beyond the academy.At my institution, the...
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Making time for Plan B (2 of 2)
While it is true that many PhD students and early career postdocs don't have a Plan B, and equally true that academic institutions can profit from their unrealised aspirations, not all universities...
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Authorial voice ignored
Recent discussions of the government-sponsored Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings rightly stress its somewhat limited vision of the "gold" open-access model, pointing...
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Shelf preservation
I enjoyed John Sutherland's "Raiders of the lost archives" (28 June), although I think his conclusions premature.In my field, the history of charity, archive materials are perhaps more vulnerable...
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Compact and capable
Regarding Michael Farthing's "Too lightweight for the title" (21 June): if he doesn't have any objection to "the emergence of more small monotechnics in the higher education arena" (although I object...
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Flying down to Rio fuels new North-South romance
Canada seeks long-term relationship with growing higher education superpower. Jon Marcus reports