Flexible study emerges as cross-party concern
Help for non-traditional learning wins support, with Greg Clark saying 鈥榳atch this space鈥
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Fee-free study and v-c pay curbs are election priorities, says Green Party
Greens unveil election goals but figures on cost of pledge on fees still pending
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Exams: call time on the academy鈥檚 Hunger Games
University examinations teach students how to compete but teamwork is the vital life skill, says Kevin Fong
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5 March 2015
From the top - Vice-chancellors on what it takes to lead
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The week in higher education - 5 March 2015
University lecturers could face tougher quality assessments to address a growing number of undergraduate complaints, The Sunday Times reported on 1 March. The results of the assessments 鈥 which will...
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Q&A with Cherie Booth QC
We speak to the human rights barrister, chancellor of the Asian University for Women and visiting professor in law at St Mary鈥檚 University, Twickenham
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Has China鈥檚 maverick SUSTC broken away, or been broken?
South University of Science and Technology of China wanted to buck the system. Did it succeed? asks Hong Bing
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World in brief - 5 March 2015
United StatesStudents report being pressured into non-consensual sexAlmost 10 per cent of female and 4 per cent of male undergraduates say they have 鈥渂een pressured or forced into sexual contact...
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Diabolical insinuations
I trust that it was entirely accidental that the review of Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education (Books, 26 February) was followed by the review of...
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Just like that...
The day the Association of Business Schools鈥 most recent ranking of journals was released, I woke to find that some of my publications had been transformed, as if by academic alchemy, from 3* lead to...
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Behind the mask
I would like to clarify inaccuracies in the piece about the use of silicone masks at Robert Gordon University (The week in higher education, 19 February). The university is not ending its use of the...
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Intelligent agency
I write in response to the article about the use of agents by UK universities (鈥淎gents paid an average of 拢1,767 per non-EU recruit鈥, News, 19 February). Because of an error, the figures released by...
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Lurking in the background
In his letter 鈥淣o tuition fees on principle鈥 (26 February), Jack Douglas makes a logical error that does not help his case.If university students are funded by loans repayable by those individuals...
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No invitation necessary
The article 鈥淪ocial science 鈥榗ritical鈥 to innovation鈥 (26 February) may have created an erroneous impression.The British Academy spans the social sciences and humanities and works with a range of...
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Welsh should roam free
In a report for the Higher Education Policy Institute last week, Welsh universities were warned that they would not necessarily see any benefit from scrapping the Welsh government tuition fee subsidy...