Oh, Mr Porter: NUS presidency in Left's sights
Aaron Porter, president of the National Union of Students, will face leadership challenges from "hard Left" opponents who have called for a fresh wave of student mobilisation.Members of the Education...
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Hefce chief sees more cuts ahead if loans forecast is out of kilter
Further "substantial cuts" in the teaching grant to universities may lie ahead if the tuition fees charged by English higher education institutions "cluster" around £9,000, the head of the funding...
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Damaging, cynical, wrong: Denham on coalition policy
Former universities minister's hackles are up over 'dog's breakfast' approach, writes Simon Baker
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Twitter can improve student performance, study says
Twitter can play role in higher attainment and better engagement, study finds. Sarah Cunnane reports
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'Too detailed and prescriptive' teaching qualifications 'counterproductive'
Experts have raised "serious concerns" about new requirements for lecturer training.The proposals, set out by the Higher Education Academy, are "too detailed and prescriptive" and could be...
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Supreme comfort for US scientists
Libel rejected as court cites 'moral obligation' to act in research misconduct cases. Paul Jump writes
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Nominee: 'secret soundings' decided REF subpanel chair
Rejected candidate says appointment process was 'shambles from start to finish'. Paul Jump reports
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Council cuts present a significant 'challenge'
Real-term cuts of 23 per cent to the research councils' administrative budgets will present a "challenge", according to Alan Thorpe, chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council.Each...
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News in brief
Parliamentary oversightMPs probe peer review and cutsThe Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into peer review. It is inviting written evidence on the "operation and...
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Invasion of the union snatchers?
UCU trio claim body is being 'taken over' by SWP and left-wing members. John Morgan reports
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Management feud behind Abertay Dundee suspensions, source claims
An irreconcilable breakdown in relations among members of the University of Abertay Dundee’s senior management team is behind the suspension of its principal and his deputy, ߣߣÊÓƵ...
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Underground resistance
Uta Kornmeier muses on the unexpected unearthing in Berlin of some remarkable survivors of Nazi cultural vandalism
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Diary
LondonFrankensteinMary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 when she was just 19, remains one of the archetypal statements of anxiety about modernity,...
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Catch me if you can
Our Head of Overseas Recruitment, Geraldine Transept, has refused to apologise for an open letter addressed to potential EU students that would appear to encourage a degree of duplicity.In the letter...
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Leader: More than money is at stake
Branch campuses have had their problems, but they still offer exceptional opportunities to those who get them right