East meets West in MBA for future masters of universe
‘Billionaires come to us to study’, Chinese business school dean says of his role in £77,000 joint course
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The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch, by Lewis Dartnell
What will we need to know to reboot civilisation after the apocalypse?, asks Alison Stokes
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Sir David Watson: Russell Group is not all it’s cracked up to be
Senior scholar decries ‘divisive’ mission groups and government’s market focus
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Let’s discuss the way we live now
Good communication is vital when dealing with allegations of harassment, says Luke Brunning
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3 April 2014
Executive weighting - Are business-led boards to blame for tipping the scales on v-cs’ pay?
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Sir Graham Hills, 1926-2014
A former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, acclaimed for his efforts to widen access to higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, has died
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THE Scholarly Web - 3 April 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 3 April 2014
Undergraduate achievementDifferent classes’ different classesA new study indicates that state school pupils go on to get better degrees than private school peers with the same A-level grades. The...
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World in brief - 3 April 2014
United StatesYale professor changes courseUS massive open online course provider Coursera has appointed former Yale University president Richard Levin its chief executive officer. Professor Levin, 66...
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Grant winners - 3 April 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Rowland KaoInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £773,448Joint estimation of epidemiological and genetic...
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The week in higher education - 3 April 2014
Labour is to slash maximum tuition fees to £6,000 a year and may reduce them to as little as £4,000, The Sunday Times reported on 30 March. Ed Miliband, the party’s leader, is expected to pledge to...
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Inhale…and relax
Further to “Advice squad”, the feature about PhD supervision ( March). In 1988, when I still smoked, I had my PhD viva in the department of government at the University of Manchester. My supervisor,...
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Vital facts pinned down
Ray Stoneham worries that a “seismic shift to online discourse” will leave academics, who are not on first-name terms with modern-day referencing, “in their ivory towers calculating the number of...
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Unhappy resolution
I am a senior lecturer at a UK university who has been in post for more than 10 years. Until two years ago, I would have paid scant attention to the story “PhD scholarship appeal bid fails” (News,...