Hepi wants change to "messy status quo" on private providers
The new Higher Education Policy Institute director has called for reform of regulatory differences between universities and private providers.
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THE podcast: 20 February 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe implications of a proposed marking boycott, the possibility of banks providing an alternative to student loans, and Nick Hillman’s first interview as director of the Higher...
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Physicists are more intelligent than social scientists, paper says
Social scientists are of ‘lower average intelligence’ than those in natural sciences - at least at elite universities, authors argue
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All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster, by Danny Dorling
Our use of housing as an asset to be traded is a collective failure that is preserving inequality, finds Tim Hall
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Do PhD supervisors make the grade?
Poor theses often betray inexpert supervision, say external examiners David Alexander and Ian Davis
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The IoE-UCL marriage is not one of equals
It’s hard for specialist institutions to go it alone, but mergers may bring few benefits, says Miriam David
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Unanswerable questions
How can the US legal system confuse the singing of hymns by an elderly nun with the acts of a terrorist?
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Gender equity: even sector’s best not good enough
Women-friendly policies insufficient at even Athena SWAN universities, finds THE Best University Workplace Survey
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Use and abuse of abuse
Following the news that an English lecturer from the University of Nottingham has apologised for describing a third-year student as an “idiot†and “semi-literate†on Facebook, our Deputy Head of...
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THE Scholarly Web - 20 February 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Dame Wendy Hall
We speak to the professor of computer science and dean of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering at the University of Southampton
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News in brief - 20 February 2014
N8 Research PartnershipShare options pay dividendsA consortium of universities in the North of England has built a toolkit to help guide institutions looking to share equipment. The N8 Research...
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World in brief - 20 February 2014
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees’...
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Grant winners - 20 February 2014
Leverhulme TrustInternational Network GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: Mary BosworthInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £123,210The Leverhulme international network on external border...
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Hall: scholar and gentleman
When I was a tutor at Open University psychology summer schools in the late 1980s and early 1990s, my weeks on the University of Sussex campus often coincided with those of Stuart Hall, who taught on...