Wait and see about waivers
Further to your online report on the Association of Law Teachers' annual Lord Upjohn lecture ("For students, fee waivers 'make no sense whatsoever'", timeshighereducation.co.uk, 14 November), it is...
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An unbound global pursuit
Relevance is a tricky concept. Research that will probably prove useful is easy to identify - it fits neatly into a priority area and researchers have done similar work before. However, research is,...
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Fighting in defence of sector
I was pleased to see Sally Hunt's rebuttal ("Fighting the good fight", 10 November) of your recent editorial "Bread, not political poses" (3 November). Especially timely was her reminder that the...
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Professional preparation
Herb Marsh writes in his opinion piece "Help teachers improve their skills or live with the consequences" (10 November): "Universities need to implement programmes to both train and evaluate...
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A place for apprenticeships
David Blanchflower's comments that extra university places should be created to address youth unemployment are short-sighted and naive ("No jobs, so get them on courses", 3 November).He fails to take...
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Willetts forced to abandon Cambridge lecture after protest
David Willetts was forced to call off a lecture yesterday evening after the event he was due to speak at was disrupted by student protesters.
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Regent’s College unveils expansion plans
One of the UK’s biggest private providers has set out bold plans to become a university, more than double in size and takeover or link up with other “complementary institutions” both in Britain and...
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Fresh leak of scientists' emails ahead of climate change summit
The University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has found itself back in the spotlight with the leak of over 5,000 emails seemingly to and from its academic staff.
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NERC appoints new head after long search
A new chief executive has been appointed to the Natural Environment Research Council almost five months after its previous head stepped down.
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Poor Londoners in richer boroughs ‘most disadvantaged’
A “poverty penalty” is restricting access to higher education for poor Londoners, particularly those living in richer boroughs, a new report says.
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Inside Higher Ed: Pepper spray outrage
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Southampton begins recruitment for new Malaysia campus
The University of Southampton’s first overseas campus has begun enrolling students after the project received academic accreditation from the Malaysian authorities.
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Fresh call for White Paper reforms to be shelved
Academics at Birkbeck, University of London have called for the government to suspend its higher education reforms.
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Lancaster to open new chemistry department
A new Department of Chemistry is to be established at Lancaster University, more than a decade after its old department was closed.
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Just good friends: Dundee and Abertay say merger is off the cards
The universities of Dundee and Abertay Dundee have issued a joint statement with the Scottish Funding Council asserting that they will not merge.