THE podcast: 19-25 February 2015 issue review
Download the podcastInternational student recruitment agents, this week’s books section, and freedom of information requests are all discussed in this week’s Times Higher Education issue review...
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‘Macho’ university culture mirrors banks’ mistakes
Professors issue warning over obsession with performance management and research excellence
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Agents paid an average of £1,767 per non-EU recruit
THE investigation shows spike in spending on fees as UK ‘reliant’ on middlemen
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Isis shows ‘Oriental studies’ are essential
The University of Manchester could not have chosen a worse time to consider closing Middle Eastern language courses, writes Hugh Williamson
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Open University’s numbers dive 28% as pool of part-timers dries up
University faces £17m deficit as enrolments fall while expenditures rise
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To Explain The World: The Discovery of Modern Science, by Steven Weinberg
A history of the steps humans took to explain how and why things work delights Cait MacPhee
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An opening-up of new horizons
It’s not just sun and salaries drawing academics to MENA jobs, says Siân Phillips
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The impact of impact
The REF’s formal assessment of the impact of academic work was highly controversial in theory: how did it play out in practice?
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19 February 2015
A hard look at impact - How did it play out in the REF?
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Claire Ashmore, Danny Dorling, Liz Gloyn, Sandra Leaton Gray and June Purvis...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Could Skype boost semesters abroad?
The Institute of International Education hopes that 1,000 teachers can help it double the number of Americans studying overseas
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Horizon budget cuts sends out wrong signal
Proposals to trim research and innovation programme ‘downgrades importance’ of funding at European level, warns EUA
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Grant winners - 19 February 2015
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Christopher BaylissInstitution: University of LeicesterValue: £158,130Mutate and survive: how bacteria fight virusesAward winner: Karen...
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Katharine Worth, 1922-2015
A leading theatre scholar who worked closely with the playwright Samuel Beckett has died
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Q&A with Nancy Viviani
We speak to an international relations scholar who played a key role in the establishment of Australian-Asian studies