25 April 2013
Do you think this is working? The merits of the viva interrogated
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The things that matter most
Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
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Are PhD vivas still fit for purpose?
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it...
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
Sheila Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic
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THE Student Experience Survey 2013
The ߣߣÊÓƵ Student Experience Survey 2013 shows a responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Accentuate for-profit positives, eliminate negatives
Thinktank calls on federal government to level the playing field
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York v-c Brian Cantor to join Bradford
Brian Cantor, the vice-chancellor of York University, is to take charge of the University of Bradford as his next post.
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Libel reforms set to become law
A bill to reform the libel system in England and Wales is set to become law after completing its passage through the Houses of Parliament.
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University participation rate hits record high
The proportion of young people accessing higher education hit a record high of 49 per cent as students scrambled to avoid last year’s tuition fee hikes, a new study says.
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Jeremy Farrar to be next Wellcome Trust director
The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.
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Ucea kicks off pay talks with 0.5 per cent offer
University staff have been offered a 0.5 per cent pay increase for the next academic year – far below unions’ claims for a salary rise in excess of 3 per cent.
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Scottish funding chief to join Abertay
The chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council is to leave his position to join a university, a matter of weeks after a similar move by the head of the English funding council.
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Chancellors make impression on Rich List
The Duke of Westminster has been revealed as the country’s richest university chancellor in a list of the UK’s wealthiest people.
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Inside Higher Ed: EdX Rejected
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed
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Uclan shelves plans for company status
The University of Central Lancashire is shelving plans to switch to private company status, potentially dealing a blow to other post-1992 universities’ hopes of making the move and opening up to...