Data be damned: REF's blueprint for systemic intellectual corruption
The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald
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Sage fright
Excitement, anxiety, shaking in your boots. Academics experience mixed feelings as term starts, says Jon Marcus
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Universities cheered by Scottish spending review, but colleges face pain
The Scottish government has pledged to increase funding for universities in a spending review that sets the budget for the next three years.
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Clegg: ‘Breaking promise on fees was heart-wrenching’
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has described the coalition government’s decision to increase university tuition fees – which went against pledges he made before the election – as “heart-wrenching”...
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Trial of Italian seismologists ‘misguided’, experts warn
A decision to charge a group of Italian seismologists and officials with manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake that killed over 300 people “defies belief”, according to a UK expert in the...
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‘Show students the data – or others will do it for you’, Willetts warns
Students should be able to view simple pie-charts showing how their university spends its tuition fee income, David Willetts has said.
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Doubts raised about PQA and AAB proposals as sector responds to White Paper
Plans for students to apply to university after receiving their A-level results have been challenged as the consultation on the higher education White Paper draws to a close.
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‘Oxbridge obsession’ blamed for holding back social mobility agenda
A “narrow, Oxbridge-obsessed” approach to higher education reform will thwart attempts to increase social mobility, according to a new report by a group of new universities.
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Lib Dems vote for rethink on loan repayments by part-time students
Delegates at the Liberal Democrat party conference have supported a motion asking the government to look again at its proposals for the tuition fee loans given to part-time students.
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Inside Higher Ed: Abuse of trust?
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
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International students ‘do not use Facebook to choose their university’
Only 4 per cent of international students use social media to select a foreign university, according to a worldwide survey of undergraduates.
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Tech-savvy students want real-life lecturers too, study finds
Universities have been warned not to assume that “digital native” students will embrace all e-learning initiatives, or indeed prefer them to traditional forms of education.
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Police pay £20k to Nottingham student arrested over terror manual
A student who was arrested after downloading an al-Quaeda training manual from a US government website during research for his master’s degree has been paid £20,000 by Nottinghamshire Police in an...
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Lecturers up the ante with vote for campaign of industrial action
University and College Union members have voted to hold “sustained industrial action” over cuts to their pensions, potentially disrupting exams and assessment at 67 universities.
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News in brief
United StatesCuts call for campus autonomyA US state university system should loosen its control over its 26 campuses, according to a report. The recommendations to the University of Wisconsin, given...