The week in higher education - 20 February 2014
It has bar stools and beer pumps, but the new “pub” at London South Bank University is not what it seems. In fact it is “an elaborate set, built at a cost of £20,000 by the psychology department; a...
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Hit the road, philosophy
Philosophers need to follow Socrates’ example and get back among the people, say John Kaag and David O’Hara
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Turbocharge teaching with a team of rivals
Courses led by interdisciplinary groups can energise teachers and students, says Robert Zaretsky
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Gove rejects IoE free school
Michael Gove has vetoed plans for a free school sponsored by the Institute of Education, as the proposal failed to reach the government’s “high bar”
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Snowden wins Glasgow rector vote
The whistleblower Edward Snowden has been elected rector of the University of Glasgow
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OFT warns universities over student debt rules
The Office of Fair Trading has told universities to review rules that stop students from graduating if they have non-tuition fee debts.
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UCU threatens marking boycott over pay
Hundreds of thousands of students may not be able to graduate this summer if the University and College Union carries out a possible marking boycott.
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Humanities could be replaced by '7 Habits' self-help
By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed
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10 reasons why Caltech is the world’s number one university
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been top of the ߣߣƵ World University Rankings for the past three years and has produced 32 Nobel Laureates in just 123 years....
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British Academy booklet shows how society can 'prosper wisely'
A new British Academy booklet aims to show how the social sciences and humanities can help build a society which combines prosperity with wisdom.
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Starting out in a recession 'boosts productivity'
Academics who complete their PhDs during a recession are significantly more productive in the long-term than those who do so during a boom, research suggests.
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Stormy weather for BIS as MPs savage forecasting failures
MPs in charge of examining public spending “don’t have confidence” in the government figures behind the £200 billion student loans system.
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Bodleian appoints to top job
The University of Oxford has announced the appointment of Richard Ovenden as Bodley’s Librarian
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THE books podcast: Philip Roscoe interview
Download the podcastPhilip Roscoe, reader in management and director of postgraduate research in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews in conversation with ߣߣƵ’s...
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THE podcast: Shirley Ann Jackson and John Kolb interview
Source: UpstateNYerDownload the podcastShirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and John Kolb, vice-president for information services and technology and chief...