8 December 2011
Byte sighs - Digital humanities: too much information?

Byte sighs - Digital humanities: too much information?

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Today's corporate vocabulary, freely and unthinkingly deployed by university leaders, was a product of the military. It was then adopted by the first modern big businesses, the railways, in the 19th...
If Times Higher Education were an academic journal, it would have been particularly pleasing to have been its guest editor last week. There are so many clear conceptual links between the articles...
The Woolf report recommends that the London School of Economics should have an "embedded code of ethics and reputational risk" ("LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds", 1...
It's a bit late to start worrying about a possible fall in state school applications to more selective institutions as more students choose to study at home to reduce costs ("Elite fear fall in...
In their different ways, Malcolm Gillies ("Thou shalt not sit on fences", 1 December) and John Mair ("Breaking the news mould", 1 December) help us to think beyond the academy's conventional "regime...
The University of Cumbria's Peter Ovens confirms my own experiences ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24 November). I recently helped out on the computing services help-desk of a 1994 Group...
Regarding "Welsh government rules on Glyndwr merger proposals": while I am pleased for Glyndwr University that it has avoided a forced merger, I fear this may only be a stay of execution.However, I...
"Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil" (24 November), your article on the domination of many US universities by sport and its financial clout, offers little that is new....
The University of Sheffield has withdrawn an injunction that students feared would ban campus protests.
Two proposals have been put forward to avert the “polarisation” of the sector as a result of the government’s student number plans.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
A university is launching a competition to win an “Ultimate Scholarship”, which would give the winner free tuition at the institution for life.

David Cameron is to announce a new government strategy developing links between university medical research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.