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Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe trials of a PhD viva, the UK’s slow move towards a grade-point average degree clasification system, and university mergers all feature on this Times Higher Education...

The week in higher education - 25 April 2013

Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie’s Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...

Hefce plans new funding contract

Existing legislation fails to cover Student Loans Company cash

Athena SWAN applications soar

Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

Wales needs Oxbridge boost, says MP

New ‘ambassador’ aims to improve access to elite institutions

Anti-austerity? Come join the resistance

We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...

Geography and economics

In setting the scene for his analysis (“Beware! Hazards ahead”, 18 April), Sir Steve Smith refers to universities as “anchor institutions in local economies” and to “the old adage that there is only...

On so many levels

Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the significance of Level 3 for higher education (“Applying changes”, Opinion, 18 April). She is also correct when she says that “it is difficult to find an...

Satisfied customers

Readers of “Posh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s” (News, 11 April), which covered the status anxiety of some upper-middle-class students over not getting into Russell Group universities, might...

Digital measurement

I can only thank Times Higher Education for consistently transmitting from the academic blogosphere via its ɫ��ֱ�� Scholarly Web. I have been writing loosely academic perspectives on my own blog since...

The market has spoken

John Duffy, registrar of the University of Sussex (my workplace), argues that we have a moral obligation to give our students better services at a better price in return for their high fees (“A...

Best kept secret is out

The potential for collaborative procurement to help close the gap between projected income and costs could be described as the sector’s best kept secret, so it was refreshing to see it revealed in...

Darwinian selection

The proposed arrangements for research publication in light of the Finch report would seem to suggest a new hierarchy for academics. We already appear to have goldfinches and greenfinches, but what...

Red is the colour

In “Resolving to do better” (Opinion, 11 April), Rob Behrens attributes the following quote to Mao Zedong: “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse.”That...

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 25 April 2013