The Political Portrait, edited by Luciano Cheles and Alessandro Giacone
Darren Lilleker enjoys a useful study of how leaders have tried to shape their public images
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Subject-level TEF scrapped and new grades to be created
Teaching excellence framework will also no longer be an annual exercise, with next assessment due to be published next year
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Ministers consider loan changes and minimum entry bar in England
Government’s ‘interim response’ to Augar review puts off big decisions but signals drive to lower costs of system
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Biden helps colleges with action on student loans and immigration
New president welcomed by higher education groups, but faces tough legislative hurdles
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Bonuses and rises boost v-c pay despite voluntary cuts for Covid
Accounts show two leaders departed roles with payments of almost £200,000 while others received inflation-busting uplifts to salaries
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Ministers ‘rebalance’ teaching grant in ‘interim’ Augar response
‘Final conclusion’ to review of post-18 education to come at spending review, as DfE heralds skills white paper, TEF review and admissions consultation
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Back graduate tax and make pre-fees students pay too, England told
Hepi paper by former Uclan deputy v-c calls for new funding system in which richest graduates pay more
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‘Biden bump’ boosts international applications for US study
Initial estimates indicate jump in applications for coming year in excess of 10Â per cent
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The week in higher education – 21 January 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Barber: capping student numbers would stifle social mobility
Outgoing Office for Students chair defends university expansion before taking up government role
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Interview with Hazel Carby
The Yale professor talks about racism in post-war Britain, mixing the personal and the academic in her writing and her advice to her younger self
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Thomas Symons, 1929-2021
Tributes paid to ‘intelligent, witty and compassionate leader’ who transformed Canadian studies and forged a major new collegiate universityÂ
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Only academics can run universities effectively
The tired stereotype of the unworldly scholar has often been used to justify giving excessive influence over university management to businesspeople and administrators. There is ample evidence that...
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Can universities manufacture a post-industrial future for the Midwest?
Freshly inaugurated US president Joe Biden owes his election victory to swing states in America’s Rust Belt. But is his plan to revitalise them by creating ‘millions of new manufacturing and...
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Academics are promoting the wrong kind of rigour
My student is right to wonder out loud why learning in college must be a forced march rather than a playful adventure, says Gregory Skutches