Campus round-up - 24 October 2013
Source: Nature Picture LibraryPachyderms get straight to the pointElephants are the only animals that understand human pointing without needing any training, a study has found. Researchers from the...

Source: Nature Picture LibraryPachyderms get straight to the pointElephants are the only animals that understand human pointing without needing any training, a study has found. Researchers from the...

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

A leading advocate for ethical journalism has died

United StatesRethink the Master PlanA Californian state government agency has urged its university leaders to create a new higher education agenda, saying that the existing plan is outdated. In a...

Leverhulme TrustEarly Career FellowshipsThese offer salary costs for researchers at the聽beginning of their academic careers, providing them with the opportunity for advancement and enabling them to...
Many colleges and universities offer students the facility to submit their work for an authenticity report based on matches with internet and published sources as recorded in the Turnitin database (鈥...
We were interested to read 鈥淎thena SWAN is poised to achieve liftoff鈥 (News, 10聽October) and 鈥淒awning diversification鈥 (Letters, 17聽October).We would like to respond to the incorrect statements made...
The Pearson Think Tank recommends the abolition of Ucas personal statements on the grounds that not everybody makes a good job of them (鈥淪tatements of disapproval鈥, News,聽10 October).Where does one...
Edward Acton (鈥淵ou get out what you put in鈥, 17 October) argues that UK undergraduates should spend more time on their studies, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. I couldn鈥檛 agree...
John Colley advocates publishing the results of student questionnaires and compares them to patient survival rates (鈥淚t鈥檚 got to be good鈥, Opinion, 10 October). He seems to think that the former are...
Your excellent feature 鈥淓volution of evaluation鈥 (17 October) did not discuss the importance of the name change from the research assessment exercise to the research excellence framework. This...
In bemoaning the decline in higher education research since the publication of the Robbins report, Gareth Williams diplomatically sidesteps an assumption that Lord Robbins made that neither he nor...

Hefce appointmentsIn the student cornerThe Higher Education Funding Council for England has appointed a board member with specific responsibility for the student interest. Graeme Osborn is a former...

Delegation to Brazil underscores progress in UK universities鈥 collaborative efforts

Roger Morgan on the reasons why so much blood was shed