Unlimited recruitment: a poachers鈥 charter?
The full impact of the abolition of the cap on student numbers won鈥檛 be felt immediately, suggests Emran Mian
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Exam board blues: are universities the answer?
As ministers and schools lose patience with GCSE and A-level grade and fee inflation, Louis Goddard looks to the past for new solutions
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Russell Group universities 鈥榰nfairly rejecting ethnic minority students鈥
Study suggests BME students could be missing out on places because institutions are trying to shape ethnic mix
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Citations? Great. But have you got the 鈥榯 factor鈥?
Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations
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EU recruitment boom prompts student finance warning
Universities believed to be looking to Continent to make up shortfalls in domestic enrolment
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University staff in London are least happy in work
High costs, long commutes and insecure jobs may explain figures from Best University Workplace Survey 2015
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TEF: to keep it simple would be stupid
The article on staff teaching qualifications suggests that the high number of 鈥渦nknowns鈥 is an obstacle to the inclusion of this measure in the teaching excellence framework (鈥淲ill lack of data on...
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Future-proofing Heythrop
In the weeks since the difficult decision was made that Heythrop College would cease being a constituent college of the University of London in three years, our governors and staff have been...
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Clear up admissions melee
Robert Allison was right to point out in a blog post that the admissions system is confusing and unfair (鈥淐learing 2015: universities must put students first鈥, 12 August). As the recruitment cap is...
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A new Dark Age
My flabber was well and truly gasted when I read Sorana Vieru鈥檚 views on university education (鈥淪ector 鈥榮tuck in the Middle Ages鈥欌, News, 13 August). In what sense can the university curriculum and...
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What are the chances?
I haven鈥檛 read the article in the national press about an Open University algorithm that can forecast a student鈥檚 final grade 鈥渨ithin just a week of their starting their course鈥 (The week in higher...
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A question of satisfaction
More than 300,000 individuals answering 23 questions, each with five possible responses (鈥淣SS 2015: 拢9K tuition fees fail to dent satisfaction鈥, News, 13 August). Yet the Department for Business,...
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Prizes for dismal science
Paul G. Ellis points out that if the award of Nobel prizes this century is quantified per capita, then the US lead over other countries seems rather less impressive (鈥淎nd the awards go to鈥︹, Letters...
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Follow my lead, turkey
I was astounded to learn that the University of Michigan has been 鈥渢errorised鈥 by a turkey (The week in higher education, 6 August). One wonders why the faculty didn鈥檛 come out performing the 鈥渢urkey...