The week in higher education
“Me, ugly? My Jimmy Choos make me feel BEAUTIFUL,” ran the headline in the Daily Mail’s Femail section on 9 May, above an article by Mary Beard, professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,...
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'Lend me your ears shock'
Naked impactOne of our leading psychologists, Dr Fritz Itzig, is currently languishing in a police cell after a day-long series of attempts to increase the research impact of his work on short-term...
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Continuing missions: to explore postgrad worlds
Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found
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Postgrad’s battle with Leeds over scholarship moves online
More than 350 people, including several academics, have signed a petition protesting against the University of Leeds’ treatment of an international postgraduate student
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Fear of getting caught could reduce scientific misconduct
Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity hears. By Elizabeth Gibney
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Israeli campaigners fear enemy within campus walls
Event on academic freedom identifies ‘one-sided far-leftist agitprop’
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Turf flaws
While John Furlong may have right on his side in his criticism of some aspects of recent English education policy, he is making the classic mistake of trying to persuade people that the grass is...
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Leader - Another boom bang-a-clanger by watchdog
The gulf between the QAA benchmark on study time and the hours students put in raises questions about its judgement
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On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century by Luc Ferry, translated by Andrew Brown
Jane O’Grady on how the rise of love as a central value of modern society is leading us to the brink of second humanism
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QAA grossly overestimates student workloads
Hepi/Which? uncovers huge shortfall in study time
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Human psychology (with emphasis on the human)
Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith
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My worst student
Somewhere, in a class past or future, your nemesis awaits. John Kaag on the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle
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Southampton shows teeth and watchdog backs down
Russell Group member successfully appeals against full QAA review
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AstraZeneca’s move will increase North-South divide
Research facility clusters mean the benefits are too localised, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers
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Appointments - 16 May 2013
Durham UniversityTed SchreckerThe new professor of global health policy at Durham University said he felt “sheer delight” when offered the post. Ted Schrecker, associate professor in the department...