Risk-based risky business
Roger King is right ("Safeguarding quality could soon become a very risky business", 21 July) to urge caution before the sector grabs the notion in the recent White Paper that some institutions might...
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Architects of their own woes
Responsibility for the problems in higher education may partly lie with some of the philosophies that prevail in the academic community itself. There is currently a lot of criticism of the...
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Newman's evergreen truths
"The secret to saving our universities" (14 July) reminded me of these lines from John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University."If then a practical end must be assigned to a university course, I say...
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Far from ideal
It may well be true that "Reading Aristotle can roll back the tide of relativism" (21 July), but I wonder how far Socrates and Plato can be pressed into service in the "struggle against subjectivism...
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Mission impossible? Willetts to ‘convince arts and humanities how much we love them’
David Willetts has set out a three-point “to do” list for the coming months, making it a priority to convince academics in the arts and humanities “how much we love them”.
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Abertay Dundee announces retirement of suspended principal - again
The University of Abertay Dundee has reconfirmed the controversial retirement of its suspended principal Bernard King, and said that all legal claims between the two parties have been withdrawn.
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Dead heat in Cambridge vote on Willetts
A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament” over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.
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Student visa curbs 'not based on evidence'
The government is making “optimistic” assumptions about the effect of its student visa policy and must do more to base its plans on evidence, a group of MPs has warned.
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Inside Higher Ed: Who is punished for plagiarism?
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Venture capital fund planned as Welsh universities follow lead of NYU
Two Welsh universities are to launch a £2 million venture capital fund to invest in local businesses and commercialise research.
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Reforms pose danger, but arts and humanities should prosper
The “huge risks” that are being taken with the future of the higher education sector have been highlighted in a critical review by the president of the British Academy.
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A third of people have no qualifications in some parts of Britain, study finds
The proportion of the population without any educational qualifications is as high as one in three in some parliamentary constituencies, an analysis has shown.
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Strength training and weight lifting
Professional coaching - a common tool in business - is just starting to make inroads in the academy. Matthew Reisz speaks to advocates of tailor-made tactics for defeating stress, stasis and discord
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Home truths Down Under
Its higher education sector appears healthy, but will Australia's new demand-led system enable it to recruit enough domestic students to beat a drop in overseas recruitment and chronic underfunding?...
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Reading Aristotle can roll back the tide of relativism
Educationalist calls for a 'genuine' revival of Classics teaching, reports Matthew Reisz