Athena SWAN applications soar
Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

New ‘ambassador’ aims to improve access to elite institutions
We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...
In setting the scene for his analysis (“Beware! Hazards aheadâ€, 18 April), Sir Steve Smith refers to universities as “anchor institutions in local economies†and to “the old adage that there is only...
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the significance of Level 3 for higher education (“Applying changesâ€, Opinion, 18 April). She is also correct when she says that “it is difficult to find an...
Readers of “Posh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s†(News, 11 April), which covered the status anxiety of some upper-middle-class students over not getting into Russell Group universities, might...
I can only thank Times Higher Education for consistently transmitting from the academic blogosphere via its THE Scholarly Web. I have been writing loosely academic perspectives on my own blog since...
John Duffy, registrar of the University of Sussex (my workplace), argues that we have a moral obligation to give our students better services at a better price in return for their high fees (“A...
The potential for collaborative procurement to help close the gap between projected income and costs could be described as the sector’s best kept secret, so it was refreshing to see it revealed in...
The proposed arrangements for research publication in light of the Finch report would seem to suggest a new hierarchy for academics. We already appear to have goldfinches and greenfinches, but what...
In “Resolving to do better†(Opinion, 11 April), Rob Behrens attributes the following quote to Mao Zedong: “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse.â€That...


Union takes on management over ‘academic annex’ reforms

Fit to printA group of illustration students are bringing traditional printmaking skills back to the defunct press room of a local newspaper. The former press room at the Bournemouth Echo building,...

MoocsAnd NovoEd makes threeA third massive open online course platform developed by academics from Stanford University has been launched. Following in the footsteps of Coursera and Udacity, NovoEd,...