Clarity for student buyers
In response to government proposals to introduce market-driven changes to higher education, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is consulting on the information that universities will be...
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Concentrated but weaker?
David Colquhoun suggests that my colleagues and I misrepresented his views on research concentration ("Now, concentrate", Letters, 3 February). Our previous letter ( January) accurately reflected the...
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Exceptional examples (1 of 2)
I enjoyed the article by Amanda Goodall on the leadership of our universities (Turning on the leading lights", January), and I very much enjoyed her book on this subject.I acknowledge many of the...
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Exceptional examples (2 of 2)
Amanda Goodall should not be so gullible as to believe the myth that the prime minister's salary is lower than that of many vice-chancellors. I commend to her the interim report of Will Hutton's...
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The price of market lingo
I originally thought your headline "Watch this space: pressing deadlines may see prospectuses without prices" ( January) might have included the word "prices" just for alliterative effect. But no,...
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Take off the mask, doctor
Am I missing the point of the Dr Margot Feelbetter column (Blog confidential)? Is it all some elaborate, postmodern, ironic joke?Recent advice has included: ignore what was certainly a criminal...
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Big ideas in small chunks
You report that a new study has found that Twitter can improve students' performance ("The tweet taste of success: social media's grade effect", 3 February). Quite so; and now that Twitter is allowed...
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Misheard message
Aaron Porter was not subjected to anti-Semitic abuse ("Oh, Mr Porter: NUS presidency in Left's sights", 3 February). He was referred to as "a Tory too" in chants by protesters (see a video at http://...
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With Oxford’s fees likely to rise to maximum, academics voice their anger
The University of Oxford looks set to follow the same path as planned at Cambridge in charging tuition fees close to the £9,000 maximum and using a large waiver to reduce charges to poor students.
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Tara Brabazon: Written evidence of the workings of the mind
Students could vastly improve their assignments, and marks, if they followed a few important rules. Tara Brabazon offers a 20-point checklist
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Northern Ireland fees may jump to £5,750 in post-Browne U-turn
Students in Northern Ireland could face tuition fees of up to £5,750 a year after a U-turn by a government advisor in the wake of England’s Browne Review.
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Support for reputation measure; respondent profiles boost confidence
The use of reputation surveys in university rankings is controversial. Many do not like the combination of subjective information with objective data and there are concerns that reputation surveys...
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Set Cambridge tuition at £9,000 with discount for poorest students, internal report advises
Tuition fee levels at the University of Cambridge should be set at £9,000 from 2012-13, but students from the poorest backgrounds should be given a £3,000 discount, according to a draft report seen...
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Inside Higher Ed: After Egypt
By Sam Petulla, for Inside Higher Ed
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Shared IT provision promises major savings
Universities will be able to save large sums on their IT provision after an investment of £12.5 million in “cloud computing” by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.