7 March 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Moocs may cut out recruitment middle man
Free online courses may help universities to recruit more overseas students directly by helping to forge links with potential applicants, universities and science minister David Willetts has told an...
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For-profit advice: deal careful hand on SLC cash
‘Draconian’ numbers cap could snuff out sector, coalition warned
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Hefce expects glut of shared services schemes
Universities plan cost-sharing groups once VAT exemption rules are clarified. By Jack Grove
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Physicist Dave Charlton takes over Cern’s Atlas project
University of Birmingham professor appointed post-Higgs boson ‘spokesperson’. By Paul Jump
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News in brief
Office for Fair AccessNine new faces in advisory dozenThe head of an Oxford college is one of nine new members of an advisory group on university access. Sir Ivor Crewe, master of University College...
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Post-92 academics report greatest stress over lack of autonomy
Academics at post-1992 universities are less happy about levels of management control than staff at older institutions, a study has found.
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Immigration forecast: ridge of Right pressure
If academic colleagues are wondering why the sector’s extensive lobbying to get overseas students reclassified as non-immigrants is being so strongly resisted by the government, look no further than...
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Mixed blessings
We would like to respond to your recent cover story “Primed, but not suspect” (28 February). Last year we published a critical paper in the journal Review of General Psychology about another popular...
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Consider the alternative
Having read “Universities pull out of EU’s ‘unjustifiable’ U- Multirank” (News, 7 February), I scanned the ߣߣƵ archive and was surprised to find almost universally negative reports...
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Necessity, not a luxury
Postgraduate education in the UK faces unprecedented challenges (“‘Postgraduate premium’ fuels vicious cycle of social inequality”, News, 7 February). There is a crisis in funding and access....
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Hostile witnesses
Might the “hostility, sometimes bordering on hatred” that troubles Peter Crisp, chief executive and dean of BPP Law School, be due, at least in part, to public pronouncements made by his predecessors...
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External reassignment
Who would be an external examiner in higher education? At Keele University we are no longer allowed to ask our externals to adjudicate or advise upon final-year undergraduate students who are...
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Sine of confusion
Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London, notes that an explicit commitment to “interdisciplinarity” will help undergraduates studying its new bachelor’s of arts and sciences “...
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Payment by results
Surely there is a way to regulate “grade grubbing” to the benefit of all? (“Please professor, I want some more”, News, 28 February.) An enhanced assessment process could be offered where, for...