Soas to pay former student £20K over ‘no supervision’ PhD
Law graduate urges research students to ‘take institutions to task’ on inadequate supervision
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‘White nationalist’ face of Charlottesville now studying at LSE
Enrolment of Peter Cvjetanovic on political theory master’s sparks debate about whether universities can consider applicant’s political views in admissions processes
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Open question on v-c pay as jobs come up for grabs
Sector observers predict that universities will take the chance to rein in executive remuneration
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The week in higher education – 4 October 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Australia’s free speech backlash ‘absurd’, says chancellor
Gareth Evans adds that ‘inherent lack of trust’ prompted Australian National University to decline Western civilisation course
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Interview with Lee Cronin
The award-winning chemist attempts to explain his reasons for wanting to create a chemical brain, but suggests we won’t be moving to Mars any time soon
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The REF is perverse to ignore journal hierarchies
The research excellence framework’s reliance on hasty peer review by generalists limits sample size and accuracy, three academics argue
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Performance management is performance mismanagement
Research will suffer from the collapse of professional development into financially fixated assessments of ‘capability’, say Gill Evans and Dorothy BishopÂ
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Writing recommendation letters is a courtesy, not an obligation
If academics object to students’ intended destinations, they have a right not to write, says David Palumbo-Liu
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University campuses and buildings must remain public places
Restricting access to university property is a sorry symptom of commercialisation that is making students poorer, laments Les Back
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Group think: scholars assess the state of sociology
Sociology, once a discipline seen as the embodiment of social progress, is now subject to frequent scepticism over its methodology, politics and career relevance. Here, five sociologists offer their...
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Birkbeck mulls withdrawing from domestic league tables
University says its mission and nature of its students ‘make it difficult to climb much above 90’ in UK rankings