External ends
Some time ago, I wrote lamenting the demise of the external examiner on undergraduate degree programmes. We have just had the exam board meeting for final-year students, and what a dirge this has...
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Universities ‘failing to prepare graduates for UK film industry’
Generic courses may not be equipping students with much-needed skills, says British Film Institute
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Elsevier victory over Sci-Hub ‘shows research is corporate asset’
Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant
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THE Awards 2017: entry deadline extended
UK universities now have until 2 July to submit their entries
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Proposals for EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights worry universities
Sector figures say government proposals fail to guarantee future for academics based in the UK
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Female academics ‘interrupted more in interviews than men’
Treatment of engineering scholars seen as sign of hostile ‘prove it again’ attitude
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Traumatic histories: the ethics of research in conflict zones
Academics investigating militarism and war must explore their own assumptions as well as those of their societies, event hears
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Smits: fund ‘disruptive innovators’ to create Europe’s Uber
Director-general of research and innovation at the European Commission says university research funding would not be affected
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British vice-chancellor ‘forced out of Australia’ by visa reforms
Former Heriot-Watt principal Steve Chapman says he will have to leave Edith Cowan University in 2020
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Student bribery and cheating ‘endemic’ in Ukraine
Over-expansion of higher education, ‘useless’ compulsory modules and wider culture of graft blamed
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TEF may well end up harming the very programmes it seeks to help
The 'simplistic metric-driven ranking' runs the real risk of stifling the growth it seeks to stimulate, says Gavin Schwartz-Leeper