GPA system fails to make global grade
Scholar demands action to reform 'inconsistent' marking methodology. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Disabled former student presses for adjudicator to rule on discrimination
A disabled woman will make a final attempt to challenge the Office of the Independent Adjudicator next week in a case that has raised questions about the role and remit of the student complaints...
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Internationalisation is 'ours to win or lose'
UK and US can gain in global game if they hit the right notes, conference told. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Dramatic tension as theatre college mulls privatisation
Silence over premium funding leaves Rose Bruford head pondering role change. Simon Baker reports
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Bridge the global gap, business schools urged
Business schools are going through a "pivotal time" in their development, according to a US-based task force set up to address the challenges posed by globalisation.
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News in Brief
Science select committeeTory member cedes his seatA member of the Commons Science and Technology Committee is to stand down just months after being selected. Alok Sharma, Conservative MP for Reading...
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Student activists set sights on v-cs
Left-wing groups plan to greet UUK meeting with pickets and walkouts. John Morgan reports
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'F' for 'effort'
Harriet Jones, Kay Yeoman and Helen James offer their insights into the dos and don'ts of feedback terminology
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Quit the quotas: only competitive tension will keep fees down
Market discipline must be introduced to ensure that universities deliver the best deal for students and taxpayers, argues Tim Leunig
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Diary
GlasgowJohn Cage - Every Day is a Good DayThe US composer John Cage (1912-92) was most famous or notorious for 4' 33" - in which a "performer" sits at a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence...
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The Pick - Sexual Nature
Credit: Green Porno/SundanceSexual NatureNatural History Museum, LondonUntil 2 OctoberSex has been around for about a billion years - plenty of time for it to get complicated. Male bedbugs stab their...
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Not my children!
"Thanks, but no thanks." That was the shock response from Mrs Lillian Daunting, a spokesperson for our university cleaning staff, to the proposal from the Unite union that the children of cleaners...
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Urania's lessons for Clio
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the humanities' need for scientific insights
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Research Intelligence - Why blue skies is still vital
The MRC's head knows it must deliver impact, but he tells Paul Jump that he's equally aware of the need to help the best ideas germinate
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The Week in Higher Education
The life of the climate scientist has not been an easy one as the debate with global warming sceptics has grown ugly over the past year or two. Now, one climate scientist has gone on the attack,...