Jeremy Farrar to be next Wellcome Trust director
The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.
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Ucea kicks off pay talks with 0.5 per cent offer
University staff have been offered a 0.5 per cent pay increase for the next academic year – far below unions’ claims for a salary rise in excess of 3 per cent.
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Scottish funding chief to join Abertay
The chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council is to leave his position to join a university, a matter of weeks after a similar move by the head of the English funding council.
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Chancellors make impression on Rich List
The Duke of Westminster has been revealed as the country’s richest university chancellor in a list of the UK’s wealthiest people.
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Inside Higher Ed: EdX Rejected
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed
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Uclan shelves plans for company status
The University of Central Lancashire is shelving plans to switch to private company status, potentially dealing a blow to other post-1992 universities’ hopes of making the move and opening up to...
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Sussex outsourcing opposition grows
Academic opposition to outsourcing at the University of Sussex is building, with staff from ten schools, departments and research centres publishing statements supporting protests at the institution.
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Count the spin outs that win out, says chief science adviser
Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.
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THE podcast: Anthony Forster
Anthony Forster, University of Essex vice-chancellorPodcast Powered By PodbeanUniversity of Essex vice-chancellor Anthony Forster joins reporter Chris Parr to discuss the university’s future, his own...
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Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
The fictions and pretences of theatrical performance form the lens for this fascinating and highly personal memoir of fraught and dysfunctional family relationships. Characteristically for a work...
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
As someone who suffers recurrent palaeofantasies (don’t ask), I’m a sucker for this book’s title. The idea of exploring the strange things that 21st-century Homo sapiens gets up to in the name of...
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America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye
Claimed to have been invented a century ago, the assembly line has long since lost the lustre it once enjoyed. Henry Ford is commonly credited with this remarkable achievement in 1913, but fellow...
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Fault lines of enquiry
Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens
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LSE students hit back over North Korea trip
Students at the London School of Economics who were on a controversial visit to North Korea with undercover BBC journalists have hit out at the university, saying it has placed them in greater danger...
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Poorest pupils ‘could be nudged to apply to university’
School pupils from poorer backgrounds could be contacted by the government to nudge them towards applying to university if they get good GCSE grades, David Willetts has said.