Blogconfidential: Should I stay or should I go?
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Should I stay or should I go?
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Appointments
University of HullTina OvertonA professor of chemistry education who left "boring" industry for academia has been elected president of the education division at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)....
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Campus round-up
Institute of EducationTake care with their educationMany young people who have been in care fail to get to university because of "an overriding lack of support". A five-country study, led by...
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Odds and quads
This striking black costume was used in The Brilliant and the Dark, a cantata for female voices composed for the National Federation of Women's Institutes by Australian composer Malcolm Williamson to...
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Capital pains: axe to fall as BIS plans to share the losses
Minister expects 44% cut to be shared equally across department's portfolio. Paul Jump writes
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Peer welcomes Browne lead but demands watchdog be let off leash
QAA reform needed to ensure that fees and quality rise in step, Lord Willis tells Rebecca Attwood
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The Week in Higher Education
Fresh from alienating thousands of students and schoolchildren with its plans for higher tuition fees, the coalition government now finds itself with another foe: Miss England. Jessica Linley, who is...
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Fees pioneers map coalition wrong turns
Loans architect and Browne panellist spot flaws in reforms. John Morgan and Simon Baker report
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'Doomsday scenario': private access to student support may cost academy
Places at established universities could be cut to accommodate the government's plan to open up higher education to more private provision, it has been suggested.The "doomsday scenario" was...
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Listless reply to USS consultation
Employers and critics offer divergent interpretation of 1 per cent response rate. John Morgan reports
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Hefce consults on what data applicants should see
Universities will have to publish data on graduate earnings, teaching and assessment methods and contact hours under plans published this week.The Higher Education Funding Council for England,...
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Black spots loom as Aimhigher shuts
Experts say closure may mean some people get poor advice or none at all. Rebecca Attwood writes
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With a scholar of German studies under siege, medievalists mobilise
Bristol's plan to cut post would harm UK expertise, warn colleagues worldwide. Simon Baker reports
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UCL finds researcher deliberately engaged in misconduct over paper
A former University College London researcher falsified data and sabotaged colleagues' experiments to cover his tracks, an investigation has concluded.Jatinder Ahluwalia worked in the laboratory of...
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A night to remember
The splendour of the Times Higher Education Awards 2010 is captured in this sketch made on a napkin by Curtis Tappenden, a lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts. "The drawing was made just...