10 April 2014
Strength reassessment - Lessons for universities from political leadership
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Bryan Clarke, 1932-2014
A leading contributor to our understanding of evolution, population genetics and the formation of species has died
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Q&A with John Bercow
We speak to the Speaker of the House of Commons and chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire
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World in brief - 10 April 2014
TurkeyAlleged appointment interferenceTurkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan interfered in the selection of two university leaders, it has been alleged after the leaking of audio files. Posted...
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News in brief - 10 April 2014
InternationalisationHopes and fears, globally speakingUniversities around the world fear the “commodification and commercialization of education”, according to a survey. The International Association...
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Grant winners - 10 April 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsHumanitiesAward winner: Clive GambleInstitution: University of SouthamptonValue: £163,228Seasonality, mobility and storage in Palaeolithic hunting...
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Removal in progress
“What is the value of pro vice-chancellors?” asked Jamie Targett rhetorically in The Poppletonian (3 April). Glyndwr University agrees: its restructuring plan removes the remaining pro v-cs, and the...
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Memorable monikers
One gets the impression that the QM(U)L staff’s view of management would include a number of highly memorable four-letter “phonetics” (“Short shrift for QML’s short form”, 3 April). Perhaps they...
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Alternative reality
Three cheers for Mary Midgley (“I am more than the sum of my parts”, 3 April) and her campaign to insist on common sense truths such as that we have free will. Philosophers like Midgley are needed...
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Gilded pages
As a new junior lecturer 10 years ago, a colleague commented that she had visions of me secretly squirrelling pots of money away. In that spirit, I was wondering whether anyone else noticed the...
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Channelling talent
“Look at any real population of academic staff…you’ll see not a uniform group of similarly capable, functionally equivalent individuals, but a tremendous diversity of strengths, working styles and...
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Lost in house of mirrors
Sir David Watson is right about the divisive effect of the “Russellers” (“‘Russellers’ are not all they claim, senior scholar warns”, 3 April). While there is something boorishly predictable about a...
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Your salary can make you sick
It seems clear that vice-chancellors in the UK are catching a bad case of what the Americans call “CEO disease” (“The big business of remuneration”, 3 April). A search on Google for “CEO disease”...
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The week in higher education - 10 April 2014
The compelling saga of how Queen Mary University of London (no comma, remember) should be abbreviated has reached a conclusion. In an email to staff on 4 April, principal Simon Gaskell said he had...