Appointments - 26 September 2013
University College LondonDilly FungOn being offered the position of director of University College London’s Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Dilly Fung immediately thought of her...
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THE Scholarly Web - 26 September 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 26 September 2013
Industrial action voteUCU ballot over pay disputeUnionised academics are being balloted for industrial action over employers’ 1 per cent pay offer. The University and College Union said it will...
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We're going up, up, up!
“Rejoice! Rejoice!” exclaimed our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, as he revealed at yesterday’s specially convened staff meeting in the atrium of the new Management Building that our...
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Equality Challenge Unit ‘charter mark’ to tackle racial discrimination
Third initiative to foster fairer academy unveiled
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Lower fees won’t win votes, ex-minister tells Labour
Party needs better position on funding, says Bill Rammell
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Internet mentors could supplant traditional lecturers
Horizon Scanning study points to a ‘new kind of pedagogy’ in higher education by 2020
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Universities ‘must give more support’ to student start-ups
Academia ‘has a duty to nurture students’ fledgling businesses’, Royal Academy of Engineering panel hears
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Mergers boost efficiency, research suggests
Union a ‘positive activity’, says economics lecturer
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Helen Small discusses The Value of the Humanities
New book aims to promote calm in place of ‘grievance’
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Ministry of Information gets the historical treatment
Template for Orwell’s nightmare the subject of major AHRC-backed study
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Odds and quads - 26 September 2013
This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of “certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms...
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Quebec’s proposed ban on faith symbols provokes unease on campus
Academics and students register opposition to outlawing of overt displays of religious affiliation
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In deserted fields, danger
A career in research is not attractive to Germans, suggests a study conducted by the country’s Federal Statistical Office. A large proportion of graduates do not continue with research once they get...