Ruth Farwell to retire as Bucks New v-c
Ruth Farwell has announced she is to retire as vice-chancellor of Bucks New University early next year
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THE podcast: 26 June - 2 July 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe Home Office clampdown on student visas, unrealistic student employment expectations and the size of UK university endowments are all up for discussion in this week’s Times...
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Which? director wants HE ‘to get its house in order’
Richard Lloyd to call for universities to be judged on graduate employment
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THE podcast: University of California, Berkeley
Download the podcastNicholas Dirks, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and Scott Biddy, vice-chancellor for university relations at the same institution, discuss California’s...
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In research, weird is wonderful
Sovietised REF blocks progress. Innovation comes when universities encourage risk-taking, says Andrew Oswald
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London Metropolitan pays £1.3m a year for unused building
University still pays rent and maintenance costs for Ladbroke House and is stuck in lease until 2016
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A coherent whole
The University of London has at no point recommended that the Warburg Institute’s unique collection be absorbed into Senate House Library (“Library saved from Nazis awaits its fate”, News, 19 June)....
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Seeking full disclosure
Adrian Deeny of University College London makes a plea for accurate reporting of animal experiments, in light of coverage in the Daily Mirror of a report on cat research in the UK (“An open and shut...
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On the right path
The University of South Florida has been collaborating with INTO University Partnerships since 2010. USF’s decision to partner with INTO did not arise from a “desperate” position as characterised in...
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Be more dog
I read with sympathy and agreement Sir Roderick Floud’s article “From serendipitous excellence to a world-class omnishambles” (Opinion, 19 June), in which he talked about the difficulties caused by...
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A little less conversation
Given the absence of any explanation from the University of Warwick for Thomas Docherty’s suspension (“Employer gags critic of ‘authoritarian’ sector”, News, 19 June), the suspicion must be that he...
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Closure is no balm for Open University staff
I am one of the people affected by the closure of The Open University’s East Grinstead regional centre (“OU staff express anger over centre closure”, 19 June).A university spokesman cited the “...
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News in brief - 26 June 2014
Course league table proposalRankings that are just the jobAn adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their graduates’ employment rates and earnings. A...
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The week in higher education - 26 June 2014
The president of the Oxford Union will face no further action from police after he was arrested on suspicion of raping a fellow student and attacking another, The Daily Telegraph reported on 19 June...