5 February 2015
THE Best University Workplace 2015 - Results and analysis
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University ownership of A levels in doubt
Russell Group’s review body on ice after education secretary hits pause button
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Twenty-five years of New Queer Cinema
Nathan Smith looks back at a film movement that has challenged stigmas and defended the transgressive
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UUK warning over £6,000 fees
Board claims in public letter that Labour has ignored the ‘legitimate concerns of vice-chancellors’
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Hefce granted regulatory powers over new providers and universities
Move described as ‘early job application’ for council to be chief regulator after the election
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Measure still for measure?
Is the sector placing too little trust in academics and too much in performance management techniques?
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Moocs: know your audience and brush up your skills
HEA study offers tips drawn from first-hand accounts of both participants and course creators. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Students are right to ask where their fees go
Excellent teaching shouldn’t cost the earth, even in a market where price is used as a proxy for quality, argues Carl Lygo
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The secret lives of child labourers of the Himalayas
For 15 months, social geographer Jane Dyson lived in a mountain village with young Indian workers, bonding over ‘mountain ice cream’
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Parlez-vous Anglais?
Foreign flavours enrich the English tongue, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The lines on free speech are becoming blurred
Compilers of a league table say fear of offending students has gone too far
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Best University Workplace Survey: unease at inadequate language skills
31 per cent of scholars think international students’ English skills are not up to scratch
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Sir Mark Walport debunks ‘myth’ that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is ‘amused’ by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as ‘complete invention’
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BIS may be abolished under Tories
Writing may be on the wall for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, according to policy thinktanks
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Must we sell our souls to make a bigger impact?
Efforts to trumpet the value of social science can misrepresent important controversies and subtleties, says Martyn Hammersley