Fact-check failure
Anyone applying for accreditation, a job or even club membership might be expected to have some knowledge of the organisation they want to join.In the case of "for-profit" providers, we might take...
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Open up
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield is holding a series of three inaugural lectures. But unlike the other faculties in the institution, and all the other universities I know...
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Dependence daze
I am disturbed by your report that a target-focused education means that undergraduates struggle in many cases to learn without direct guidance from tutors ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24...
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Universal (bad) grammar
As a child preparing for my middle school entrance exams, I recall my English teacher patiently instructing us in the avoidance of the run-on sentence. I was therefore surprised to see in a recent...
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Value quality of research, not grant proposals, Sir Paul Nurse urges
Research funders should avoid “micromanaging” research and requiring applicants to set out the impact of their proposals, according to the president of the Royal Society.
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European Commission unveils research spending plans
The European Research Council’s budget will increase by nearly 80 per cent if the European Commission’s detailed proposals for its research and innovation spending are adopted.
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Woolf returns damning verdict on LSE’s Libya links
The London School of Economics was guilty of multiple failures of governance and management in its links with the deposed Gaddafi regime, an inquiry has concluded.
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Teesside lecturer arrested in phone hacking inquiry
A senior lecturer at Teesside University is reported to have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking.
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University staff join ‘biggest strike for a generation’
University lecturers and support staff are on strike over pensions today, joining national action that unions say will involve up to two million public sector workers.
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White Paper policies are ‘virus-like destroyers’ of university ideal
The government’s higher education reforms are built round a set of “meretricious policy concepts” – competition, choice and access – which are in fact “virus-like destroyers of the idea of a...
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Welsh government rules on Glyndwr merger proposals
Glyndwr University has been saved from merger after the Welsh education minister rejected a proposal that it should move into a “group structure” managed by Bangor and Aberystwyth universities.
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Removal of VAT barrier to encourage shared services
A major barrier to universities saving money by sharing services is set to be removed by the government.
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Chancellor announces £200 million boost to science funding
Science organisations have welcomed the government’s announcement of £200 million in additional capital spending.
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Use of contextual data must become commonplace, Milburn says
Considering a pupil’s social background in admissions should become the “norm, not the exception”, the government’s social mobility tsar has said.
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Inside Higher Ed: Photos with charge
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed