News in brief - 7 August 2014
Female vice-chancellorsAnd then there were threeJanet Beer has been named as the next vice-chancellor at the University of Liverpool. Professor Beer, currently vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes...
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Going to waste
Shame on the University of the Arts London for its po-faced reaction to Ann Plumb’s ceramic turds (“Scatological art difficult to pass”, News, 31 July). What would the costive UAL make of the faecal...
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Ceremonial duties
At the University of Portsmouth, where I lecture, all graduands receive two free graduation tickets and pay just £10 for extra tickets. But when our younger son graduated from his university recently...
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Hefce’s supporting role
The report on the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s role in learning and teaching (“ ‘Superficial’: £500m fails to develop class acts”, News, 31 July) was commissioned by the Higher...
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Lost in abbreviated history
The disturbances in Ukraine should make us rethink the policy of updating history courses at all levels by bringing the starting points progressively closer to the present. At the moment, the 16th...
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Full-spectrum Israel studies
Charles Keidan’s article distorts the nature of the growth of Israel studies and the role that my organisation has played in that expansion (“Partial gifts”, Opinion, 24 July).In the past eight years...
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Innovative collaboration
The engineering skills shortage debate has been raised again as the result of a recent report – Excellence in Postgraduate Education: Manufacturing, Materials and Design – published by Cranfield...
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Just what is driving the two-in-one track?
I read with interest the article on integrated degrees, which attempted to throw light on why the qualification has grown in popularity in the past five years (“Surge in popularity of integrated...
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The week in higher education - 7 August 2014
An Australian academic will keep his job after being suspended for describing alleged Twitter trolls as “stupid as fuck”. The row over Martin Hirst, associate professor of journalism and media at...
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Graduates and the gender pay gap
Women graduating from part-time degrees go on to earn £7,500 less on average than their male equivalents, according to new data on higher education leavers
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Overvaluations ‘stifle’ university spin-offs
Dame Ann Dowling warns that universities that put too high a price on their intellectual property may hamper a spin-off’s success
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Rejected work gets back in the line-up
Paper turned down for plagiarising surfaces in another of publisher’s journals
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University of Gloucestershire’s joint venture tie-up comes apart
Deal with for-profit firm INTO University Partnerships cancelled due to lack of ‘common ground’
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Strike action possible over LSE researcher pay
Unions tell university that a resolution is not possible in dispute over new career structures