Unease over appointment to Hefce board
Minister accused of favouring for-profit sector after Kaplan appointment. John Morgan writes
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‘Spooky Mooc’ students fail to bite over credits
University’s Vampire Fictions course ends with no participants opting to pay for official recognition of their achievement
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Sign up for Uclan MA in self-publishing
Matthew Reisz on ‘world’s first’ degree providing chapter and verse on the self-publishing process
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News in brief
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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THE survey reveals gender inequality persists even in Athena SWAN institutions
Even Athena SWAN holders have a way to go, THE workplace survey suggests. Chris Parr reports
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Campus close-up
Broader course portfolio and research push may help Bishop Grosseteste University recruit from afar. Paul Jump reports
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News in brief
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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A streamlined portfolio is new path to innovation
Ivy League chief says institutional accretion makes it hard to tackle global problems. Chris Parr writes
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Cut to scholarship shows US ‘disregard’ for Europe
President of US-Ireland Alliance says step is sign of America’s ‘indifference to Europe’
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Pacifists confused with terrorists
One of the many joys of growing old in the classroom is to hear students asking fundamental questions that the public chooses to neglect. I teach a course called “Social Problems”. It is the first...
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Canada toils to bring ‘ice age’ to an end
A new strategy seeks to inflate the country’s share of BRICS students. Jon Marcus reports
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Interview - John Cornwell weighs the worth of confession
Matthew Reisz meets a Catholic author who believes confession has value, but not for children
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustInternational Network GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: Mary BosworthInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £123,210The Leverhulme international network on external border...
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Obituary - Suzanne Scotchmer
A theoretical economist whose pioneering analyses of “clubs”, patents, incentives and innovation provided important insights to lawyers and policymakers has died.Suzanne Scotchmer was born on 23...
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HE & me - Dame Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy Hall is professor of computer science and dean of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering at the University of Southampton. She is known for being one of the first computer...