The week in higher education
• An Indian postgraduate at Lancaster University was shot dead on 26 December as he made his way to the opening of the sales in Manchester. A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Anuj...
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Questions, questions
Students are suffering from survey fatigue - as are we all, says Sally Feldman
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5 January 2012
Cash cow disease - How the wages of validation led to a 118-year-old institution’s demise
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Perils of the export business
Although UK institutions' foreign-accreditation initiatives have been largely problem-free, even a few disasters are too many
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Scientists call for repeal of 'deluded' EPSRC measures
Willetts receives demand for ‘complete rethink’ of council’s structure and policies. Paul Jump reports
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Rip EPSRC equation up and start again
An open letter to David WillettsWe the undersigned are writing to you in your capacity as the minister of state for universities and science to again ask you to initiate an inquiry into the role and...
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Dividing chaos by two
"One quango to rule them all?" (22/29 December) set out many of the difficulties with the government's proposal to make the Higher Education Funding Council for England a "super-regulator". The...
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Simply pick the best
Ken Smith's recent letter regarding the percentage of students from state and independent schools going to Oxbridge is a direct plea for a quota system ("Super-selection only perpetuates privilege",...
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Vital variations
I was disappointed to read dismissive comments about the Chopin Online Variorum Edition in the feature "Surfdom" (8 December). Both those interested in musical editing and practical musicians...
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Praise for the engine room
Times Higher Education's People pages suggest a world of fast-moving go-getters - with the exception, over on the right, of a lone deceased colleague whose dedication to their discipline and students...
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‘Late surge’ in applications helps reduce year-on-year fall in Ucas figures
University applications by UK students are running 7.6 per cent below last year’s levels, the latest figures show.
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Aim for the stars in science - but don't ask for more money
David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.
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Inside Higher Ed: Fallout from a lab tragedy
By Allie Grasgreen for Inside Higher Ed
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Poor grades? Blame the protests
Students at King’s College, Cambridge, spent so much time on protests challenging the higher education reforms that they neglected their studies, according to its provost.