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News in brief - 14 November 2013

Scotland/Hong Kong partnershipResearch symbiosisMinisters from Scotland and Hong Kong have signed an agreement for researchers from the two countries’ universities to collaborate more closely....

Headline hustler

I wonder if the 10cc fan on your production team (“Godly and cream”, Campus round-up; “They don’t like cricket, oh no, they love it”, News, 7 November) is the same person who ingeniously used Led...

Rude mechanics

Much of the rudeness in “Nasty, brutish and short” (7 November) is really about status and class, and is prevalent throughout society. However, it is perhaps more glaring in the lecture and seminar...

Hepi hits the buffer

Should the responsibility for regulation be separated from responsibility for funding, as the Higher Education Policy Institute suggests? (“Only a super-regulator can preserve truth, justice and the...

Not damned, united

In their pessimistic analysis of the prospects for English, “What happens in the tempest?” (31 October), Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi make some misleading statements about the organisations...

Right judgment

The July 2013 court ruling that Newcastle City Council should offer two recent care leavers who sought asylum in the UK loans to allow them to access higher education has been portrayed by sections...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 14 November 2013

School Direct raises competitive tensions

Academics taken aback by consequences of coalition policy

Postgraduate funding dogged by dearth of bank loan applications

The number of postgraduates applying for career development loans fell by 43 per cent between 2011-12 and 2012-13

Outreach efforts are too insular, says access chief

Initiatives must reach out to wider audience with success stories and ‘risk-taking’, according to Graeme Atherton

Q‑Step Centres won’t cover statistical gaps, expert says

Effort to improve quantitative skills in social sciences must go farther, John MacInnes says

No one’s seeing red over Teqsa’s quality checks, says commissioner

Australia’s universities don’t consider data burden for ‘traffic light’ reports to be excessive, forum hears

US still sets pace despite its state flagships falling behind

Private universities will keep US system ahead of Asia for decades yet, conference hears

Sweden drops language of competition

Robert Appelbaum on the war of words that preceded the withdrawal of plans to privatise universities

Quality standards can suffer in overseas export

Examining collaborative provision in an Asian partnership left John Buglear doubting the fitness of such ventures