25 November 2010
Vexed questions - Science comes to terms with the impact of Freedom of Information requests
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Gove shifts teacher training from academy to schools
The government has set out plans to radically reform teacher training.
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‘Salami-sliced’ budget is more palatable than abandoning entire research fields, Brian Cox argues
“Salami-slicing” the research budget is preferable to making “extremely dangerous” decisions to cease funding whole areas of research, according to physicist Brian Cox.
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Tough new restrictions to target 'abuse' of student visa system
The government is to slash the number of foreign students studying in the UK, as well as reducing the number of visas for highly skilled workers by a fifth.New visa restrictions were outlined today...
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A plea for engagement
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
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Universities fear the effects of plan to curb immigration
Fears are growing about the effects of a sharp reduction in immigration on universities as the government prepares to announce cuts to student visas.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is this week...
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Watchdog won’t bite you, Australia’s elite universities assured
A chief architect of the regulatory reform proposed to guarantee the quality of higher education in Australia has assured the heads of the country’s elite universities that they will not be buried in...
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Peer relief: merged BIS post goes to Adrian Smith in wake of scientists’ protest to Downing Street
A row between scientists and the government has been avoided after the director general for science and research, Adrian Smith, was confirmed in an expanded Whitehall role that also includes higher...
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Added value: three-year, £3m study reveals academy’s social, cultural and economic impact on UK
From the role of students as catalysts for economic growth, to the social and cultural benefits of universities’ public exhibitions, findings have been revealed from the biggest-ever study of the...
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Early vote on fees an attempt to 'railroad' policy through
The government must make clear its wider plans for universities before asking Parliament to vote for a higher tuition fee cap, the shadow business secretary has said.
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Islands of Privacy
Gary T. Marx enjoys a trip down the information byways of everyday life that we like to keep hidden
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The Just City
Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the "just city", and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic. It provides an...
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The Canon: The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care by Julia Lawton
I was a master's student in sociology when I first read Julia Lawton's powerful account of her ethnographic study of a hospice. In The Dying Process, she detailed her observations of residents'...
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Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers
Michelle Baddeley reads a 'fantastic' account of how our collective mood can influence the world
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Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre
The quality of detection", someone may have said, "droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven into every genre of literature." Indeed, given the general presence of the idea of detection in English...