The week in higher education
Universities have been urged to take the "brief window through which they might escape and be true to themselves" as the Government strengthens its hold over the sector. Writing in The Guardian on 26...
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Refusal to comply on impact failing to sink grant applications
Some research councils face opposition, but others see creative thinking. Zoë Corbyn writes
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US scholar claims intellectuals played ruinous role in a century of horrors
Intellectuals - and particularly academics - have been accused by one of their own of making the world a worse and more dangerous place in the 20th century.Thomas Sowell, senior fellow of the Hoover...
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Numbers cut will 'hit poor hardest'
'Non-standard' applicants may lose out as 6,000 student places are lost. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Fees 'no substitute' for Treasury funding
UUK president offers home truths to fees review. Rebecca Attwood and Melanie Newman report
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Crouching tigers ready to pounce
Yale boss welcomes 'audacious' ambitions of emerging Asian nations. Phil Baty reports
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Newcastle goes back to basics to avoid plagiarism
A faculty at the centre of an embarrassing plagiarism case has ordered senior researchers to check more carefully the drafts of papers written by inexperienced colleagues.The faculty of medical...
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'Draconian' measure: King's to cut 205 jobs
College cites government reductions and RAE results as reasons for purge. John Morgan writes
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RCUK's back-office blues as project blows budget while delivering less
Shared Service Centre's business plan in the dock for grossly inaccurate forecasts. Zoë Corbyn writes
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'Naive' arts partners exploited by the academy
Universities are inadvertently "exploiting" small arts organisations because of their superior negotiating skills when working on joint projects.An analysis commissioned by the London Centre for Arts...
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'Impact' defined: profits for publishers or advice for Sky
'Barrel scraped' as funders strive to delineate REF measure in the arts. Melanie Newman reports
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Six SFC members to decide fate of millions
The Scottish Funding Council has come under fire after overhauling the way large sums of money are allocated for knowledge-transfer and capital projects.The SFC's new investment committee, launched...
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News in brief
Knowledge transferKT pays but IP is a barrierInvestment in research and knowledge exchange pays off, according to research. A report compiled for the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Wary foreigners are in the ghetto
Culture clash sees overseas students flock together to the detriment of learning. John Morgan writes
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Daytime TV: The enemy within
Gary Day is moved by Julie Walters' superb portrayal of Mo Mowlam but finds Hamlet leaves him cold