Still room for merit alone?
Alan Ryan fears for the deserving if US-style admissions make it to the UK
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26 January 2012
Alternative route - Higher education bill’s suspension may not affect coalition destination
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Obama calls for state budgets to prioritise higher education
Barack Obama has called on state departments to prioritise higher education in their budgets – but has warned universities that spiralling tuition will be met with a cut in taxpayer funding.
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Hunt over-ruled on ballot as new strike action looms
The University and College Union is moving towards another strike in newer universities over lecturers’ pensions.
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New service to help universities internationalise
The government has launched a new cross-department venture to encourage universities to expand internationally.
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Sussex to close community engagement programmes
The University of Sussex has been urged to rethink a decision to close most of its lifelong learning department.
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BBSRC unveils new doctoral training centres
Fourteen doctoral training partnerships for the biosciences have been unveiled.
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HE bill ‘to be shelved indefinitely’
David Cameron is reported to have made a dramatic intervention in the university reforms, shelving the higher education bill that was due this spring.
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Work-to-rule action may be dropped by UCU
The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities, after talks with employers.
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Inside Higher Ed: Eastern promises
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Business schools braced for decline in international applications
Business schools are facing a 10-15 per cent drop in applications for MBA programmes, new figures suggest.
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Social scientists to work with retailers to improve the British high street
A team of academics is to help retailers make better use of social science research.
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British Academy secures new investment for small grants scheme
The British Academy and Leverhulme Trust have announced a major new investment in humanities and social sciences through the academy’s small research grants scheme.
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Cultures and crises discussed by academics and arts leaders
Nations are “always in crisis”, a former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts has argued, as he praised the arm’s-length system of public funding embodied by the Arts Council, which meant...