'Malcontents' must do better
Education expert locks horns with HEA chief over need to train academics to teach. John Gill reports
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Takeover of online provider reignites debate over degree-awarding powers
New questions have been raised about the process for granting taught degree-awarding powers to commercial companies after a US for-profit bought a UK provider and promised to pay a further £4 million...
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EU challenged to broaden Horizon
Concerns grow that framework programme is ignoring humanities research. Paul Jump writes
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Training plan may endanger education departments
1994 Group fears proposed changes to teacher training could be devastating, reports Jack Grove
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200 posts set to go as NI looks to save £28m
Queen's University Belfast plans to shed about 200 jobs as part of a £28 million "efficiency saving" in Northern Ireland's higher education sector.
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Higher education students are adults who deserve respect, says US scholar
Academics have been urged to stop "cheating" students and commit to a truly honest relationship.Kyra Gaunt-Palmer, associate professor of anthropology and black studies at Baruch College at the City...
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News in brief
Intellectual propertyBeware of blunt instrumentsChanges in copyright law to allow unfettered data mining are an "unwarranted blunt instrument which will undermine UK publishing", it has been claimed...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RS3Rs Research Funding Scheme• Award winner: Bertrand Collet• Institution: Marine Scotland Science• Value: £...
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Making it new all over again
As Post-Modernism's star wanes, Andrew Thacker observes, a diverse, multivalent Modernism is drawing fresh scholarly attention
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Diary
EdinburghSinging the ReformationIn the second half of the 16th century, Thomas Wode, a Catholic monk and later Presbyterian minister, left an important legacy in the form of the St Andrews Psalter....
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The Pick - Curtain Call
Credit: www.sdna.tvLeaps of imagination: SDNA's exploration of surreal dreamingCurtain CallThe Roundhouse, LondonThe Roundhouse, a Victorian engine shed that later served as a gin distillery store,...
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Stop going on holiday!
Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, has once again warned that academics who depart from SLERP ("statutory leave email referral protocol") will face disciplinary action.Targett pointed...
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Leader: Hours and hours of reckoning
In higher education, it's not how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that should count
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Research intelligence - 'We all aspire to universal access'
It's just that it will take a long time to get there, journal publishers' spokesman tells Paul Jump
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US debt deal spares $37bn student aid scheme - for now
But Congress cuts billions from research and graduate loan provisions. Jon Marcus reports