Scientific voyage into mountainous seas
Data gathering can be a dangerous business, oceanographer Penny Holliday tells Paul Jump
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Whitehall farce by the student numbers
Aldwyn Cooper takes aim at the coalition’s haphazard policymaking
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Australian v-c counts costs of uncapped system
Admissions standards have fallen to balance budgets, Adelaide chief argues
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Vice-chancellors reject pay rise
Two university leaders forgo increases as tensions over staff wage offer continue
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FE to HE progression will be hit by skills rules, engineers warn
Engineering body fears impact of post-16 maths and English workload
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Firms see value of sticking to research fundamentals
Industry and funders still back blue-skies thinking, doctoral conference hears
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Campaigners decry curbs on right to protest
Academics and students unite in condemnation of ‘violent’ crackdown on sit-ins and demonstrations
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STEM not only source of academic-business links
Survey indicates need for fresh ways to measure engagement with industry
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UK door ‘open to all’ migrants, not just brightest and best
As long as applicants fulfil language, qualifications and maintenance criteria, ‘they are welcome’, says BIS spokeswoman
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12 December 2013
All in the mind? - Steven Rose questions ‘neuroeducation’ hype
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Split-brain scholarship
Most of us at one time or another must have encountered students who say something like, “I haven’t done any of the reading, I bet it is rubbish anyway: in my opinion…”, and then proceed to spout...
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Mandela saw education as a powerful weapon for freedom
Martin Hall considers the legacy of academic values left by South Africa’s first black president
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I’ll drink to that - (almost) foolproof party spiel for scientists
Russell Foster on how to reply to the question ‘And what do you do?’ at Christmas cocktail parties
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Treasury loan book calculations ‘omit £1.7 billion’
The Treasury’s stated plan to fund expansion in student places by the sale of loans omits £1.7 billion in lost repayments arising from the sell off.
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University of London v-c steps into student protests row
Sir Adrian Smith suggests protesters wanted police involved to generate ‘headlines’