Royal Institution backs down on Christmas lectures
The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.
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Final Scottish governance code is criticised
Academic and student unions north of the border have again condemned a new code of governance for Scottish universities as “vague” and “meaningless”.
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University green fund round three unveiled
More than 40 universities are to receive money in the latest round of a scheme to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.
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THE podcast: 18 July 2013 issue review
Download the podcastOne university’s plans to assess academics on the basis of how many of their students obtain a 2:1 for their modules, India’s five-year plan for higher education, and our weekly...
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Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, by David Caute
Roger Morgan on how a liberal doyen blackballed a Red rival
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Students see teaching's value, Myshele Goldberg argues: what a shame that managers don't
Students appreciate the value of teaching, says Myshele Goldberg: it’s a shame managers have different ideas
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Students see teaching’s value: shame managers don’t
Myshele Goldberg on a numbers-based approach that doesn’t add up
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Randomness in Evolution, by John Tyler Bonner
Tiffany Taylor weighs the evidence of the importance of random changes in species development
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Liberal arts, British style
Aaron Rosen on how the UK is improving on a US staple
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News in brief - 18 July 2013
AustraliaMinister has no time for impactThe Australian education minister has said that measuring research impact is not necessarily a priority or a worthwhile endeavour. Kim Carr, who recently...
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News in brief - 18 July 2013
Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....
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Unexpected debt yield
Parents and students in line for rude awakening
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Campus round-up - 18 July 2013
Animated reactionA music video created by an academic has won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Animation. The stop-motion film for the band Fossil Collective’s single Let it Go (above) was...
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THE Scholarly Web - 18 July 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 18 July 2013
University of DundeeMark RobsonThe newly appointed professor of English and theatre studies at the University of Dundee has pointed to the post’s “enormous potential”. “The role that I’ll have at...