OfS’ vague costs
Times Higher Education’s annual account of the financial performances of the publicly funded universities always makes interesting reading (“University financial health check 2016”, Features, 2 June...
Times Higher Education’s annual account of the financial performances of the publicly funded universities always makes interesting reading (“University financial health check 2016”, Features, 2 June...
It seems that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is now making higher education policy by blog. On 13 April, a policy adviser to the funding council put out her thoughts on Hefce’s bid...
G. R. Evans raises some important questions in her letter about open access books (Letters, 29 May). Happily, the survey that she mentions is just one small element of OAPEN-UK, a five-year research...
On 12 October, Sir John Kingman appeared before the Science and Technology Committee to be questioned on the role of the interim chair of UK Research and Innovation, a post to which he had been...
The very existence of the Higher Education Academy seems so central to the Green Paper’s proposals to construct a teaching excellence framework that it is bewildering to find only a scattering of...
I was interested to read the outcome of the litigation initiated by a student who claimed that the teaching she had received in her two-year MSc course in nutritional therapy at the University of...
I am all in favour of academic freedom and democracy and frequently tell my elders and betters they are wrong. But G. R. Evans (THES, September ) should not delude herself. The principal reason why...
Your report "Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 1 October) prompted comments online about institutions wasting money resisting employment...
Should outside directors sit on pay panels? The Committee of University Chairs is now apparently to publish draft guidance on university pay ( “No say on pay panel for you, revised code to tell ...
From reading G. R. Evans’ piece on outsourcing the duties of the Quality Assurance Agency, it seems that others are beginning to notice that the changes being made to our assurance systems contain...
The crass plans to break up the Bodleian exemplify the irreversible damage that can be done when scholarship gives way to "professional management". Fortunately, in Oxford the academic community...
The annual grant letter from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which typically arrives in late December or January, has arrived...