The week in higher education
"Poet quits over Bard example" punned The Sun, as it reported that Derek Walcott had withdrawn from the race to become the University of Oxford professor of poetry. The Nobel prizewinner pulled out...
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Peer review teeters as experts struggle with burden of work
System threatened because academics lack time to assess research grant proposals. Zoe Corbyn writes
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Fine-tuned data show UK challenging US as the top overseas draw
Britain is hot on America's heels when student nationality is considered. John Gill reports
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Grants and pants - Lord May on why women are less thrusting
The Government's former Chief Scientific Adviser has come up with a controversial hypothesis to explain why female academics apply for fewer research grants than their male counterparts - they lack a...
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Union calls off its ballot for industrial action
The University and College Union has called off its ballot for industrial action after universities threatened to challenge the legality of the vote.The ballot may resume in the autumn term, the...
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Savings drive hits teaching and places
Cuts in extra student numbers compound grief of slashed teaching budgets. Melanie Newman writes
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Expect few new titles in library as sterling's fall pounds acquisitions
40% of university libraries plan cuts to book and journal purchases next year. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Senate House library fends off UCL takeover proposal and sticks with status quo
University College London has failed in its bid to take over Senate House Library amid fears that the move would "spell the end" of the federal University of London. The library's financial...
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Physics to feel pinch as STFC comes up short
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has outlined additional cuts in its research programme after it received a financial allocation for 2009-10 that was £12 million less than anticipated.In...
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ESRC puts doctoral training in few hands
Shift to focus postgraduate work in 25 centres concerns learned societies. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Governors have explored the legal scenarios if London Met goes bust
Advice has been delivered on positions under corporate insolvency law. Melanie Newman writes
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The cost of the credit crunch mounts: a round-up of university budget-cutting efforts
The vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey has blamed a "perverse" research assessment exercise result for forcing him to make 65 job cuts. The university is to implement a voluntary severance...
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Bottom line: universities are still not completely engaged
Hannah Fearn reports on the hopes and fears raised at Times Higher's Employer Engagement conference"They face each other across the divide rather like young lovers, with a mixture of fascination and...
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Thumbs down for skills-agenda qualifications
The Government's skills agenda is encouraging employers to put their staff through a series of useless vocational qualifications.This is the verdict of a new book by researchers led by Lorna Unwin,...
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News in brief
Economics teachingThe True value of sharingThe teaching materials of economics experts will be pooled as part of a project led by Nottingham Trent University. Fourteen specialist teaching and...