Market policies too extreme, Blair guru warns
A former director of the London School of Economics has used a House of Lords debate to attack the government’s higher education policies, saying they risk “chaotic consequences†including the...
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Glyndwr to validate private employment firm’s HE courses
Glyndwr University is to validate higher education courses run by the international recruitment company, A4e.The university said that the partnership would help people into work and tackle “social...
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Gove calls for students to be ranked on A-level scores
Research on the evidence for A-level grade inflation has prompted claims that elite universities are being damaged.
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Iraqi Kurdish scholars put gender theory to the test
Matthew Reisz on a UK-supported research centre helping tackle violence against women in Kurdistan
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Measure of free school meals is seen as 'unfair'
The switch from measuring widening participation via students' socio-economic classification to free school meal data is not fair, an admissions expert has said.
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Base expands Chinese link
A university aims to attract research investment with 'collaborative centre'. John Morgan writes
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News in brief
MalaysiaWatchdog bites private sectorThe Malaysian government has fined a record number of private universities and vowed to tighten up oversight of the sector following concerns over academic...
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F1000 journals: rank hypocrisy?
Begun as a counterweight to journal impact tables, Faculty of 1000 starts its own. Paul Jump writes
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News in brief
Open-access publishingCORE melds UK repositoriesA search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open...
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Last of the free: will Norway's universal no-fee policy endure?
Conservatives are keen to follow Swedish, Danish lead in charging non-EU students. Jack Grove writes
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Teaching intelligence - Forward march with standards held high
Supporting reconstruction in Iraq drove home the value of teaching, an HEA Fellow tells Jack Grove
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Services Research (NIHR HSR) programme• Award winner: Paul Roderick• Institution: University of Southampton• Value: £360,490A national study of practice...
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A league apart
University rankings are inapplicable to the developing world and risk doing damage there, argues Adam Habib
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A footnote - Far from it, publishers are key in advancing scholarship
Journal owners want academics to work with them towards the shared goal of furthering and disseminating research, says Graham Taylor
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The madness of kings
The longer one wears the crown, the more tyrannical he becomes - a senior academic offers a theory of vice-chancellors' behaviour