Q&A with Baroness Bakewell
We speak to the president of Birkbeck, University of London on part-time study, older learners, Barack Obama and tuition fees
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World in brief - 16 October 2014
United StatesAcademic perk for coffee chain staffArizona State University has accepted 1,000 Starbucks employees from across the US for online study after the coffee shop giant announced in June that...
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Grant winners - 16 October 2014
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Artem BakulinInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £446,097Optical control of conductivity in organic- and bio-electronic devicesAward...
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News in brief - 16 October 2014
Work performanceBlack dog days for most staffNearly two-thirds of higher education staff say that their work performance has suffered as a result of mental health problems, according to a survey. A...
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Pensions puzzle
The Employers Pension Forum published a Q&A purporting to explain the reasons for the proposed changes in the Universities Superannuation Scheme with the date 11 August 2014. I read it in...
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Divergence is a dead end
The call by Ferdinand von Prondzynski for sustained divergence of higher education in Scotland misreads history and misinforms regarding the best route to future development (“Staying together but...
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An invigorating influence
Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald’s lament about the state of the social sciences (“Time for a makeover?”, Features, 9 October) suggests that they are unfamiliar with the healthy and vibrant...
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Liberal studies
Frank Furedi convincingly argues that the virtues of a liberal education have been supplanted by an economic instrumentalism reinforced by an ideology that sees the recipients of higher education as...
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Single watchdog is better than several
The announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England of a review of the arrangements for carrying out quality assessment (“Watchdog ‘no match’ for a sector in flux”, News, 9 October)...
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The week in higher education - 16 October 2014
Three Japanese-born scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), but not everyone was so keen to congratulate the trio. The inventor of the original...
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Wendy Purcell hires discrimination lawyers as Plymouth University prepares final report
V-c hires law firm amid suggestions the case against her includes a complaint about her management style
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University of Manchester’s Graphene City is waiting for take-off
The UK risks losing the global race to exploit the thinnest material on the planet, warns university leader
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Ukip: cut foreign university students from migration figures
Party policy is to remove non-European Union students from the UK’s net targets
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Charities’ role in supporting medical research
A group of medical charities spent more on health research last year than two government funding bodies, according to a report