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Q&A with Curt Rice

We speak to an American linguist who will become the first foreigner to head a Norwegian institution of higher education

Grant winners – 30 April 2015

Royal Society/British AcademyNewton International FellowshipsThese fellowships are given to non-UK early career postdoctoral researchers in the humanities, engineering and natural and social sciences...

News in brief – 30 April 2015

Student votersGreens overtake Lib DemsThe Green Party has seen a surge in support among university students at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, according to a poll of 13,000 undergraduates. More...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 30 April 2015

The week in higher education – 30 April 2015

The 2015 general election campaign has seen the usual scrabbling around for any bit of celebrity endorsement the parties can muster. The Conservatives seem daily to wheel out a former New Labour-...

Ballot boxing

I am glad that David Prosser was interested in my review of Emma Crewe’s The House of Commons (“The personal pitch”, Letters, 23 April). But I would not necessarily agree with Prosser in his belief...

Doing a PhD shouldn't hurt

I was delighted to read about the University of Exeter breaking the taboo and issuing details concerning the impact of PhD studies on the physical and mental health of students (“Four in 10 say PhD...

Je ne suis pas Queen’s

I deplore the decision by Queen’s University Belfast to cancel the international conference “Understanding Charlie: New perspectives on contemporary citizenship after Charlie Hebdo” (“Charlie Hebdo...

Going for gold

From reading the article “Gold papers: publishers share £10m in APC payments” (News, 16 April), readers might conclude that some journal publishers do not publish many open access articles. However,...

No need to bill the lawyers

I agree with Daniel K. Sokol’s concerns about academics diagnosing the impact of illness on student performance (“Reserving judgement”, Opinion, 23 April). However, nowhere in his article does he...

Cuts have holed part-time study

In the feature in which experts quizzed politicians about higher education policy (“Answers for everything”, 23 April), the Green Party’s Dave Cocozza refers to the scaling-back or closure of every...

Doctoring the doctorates

Laurie Taylor's weekly bulletin from the University of Poppleton

St Patrick’s gets green light for SLC loans

But ����Vlog Office revokes private college’s licence to sponsor overseas students

Regional attitudes on the value of a degree in the UK

Less than a quarter of people in the North East of England agree that it is essential to have a degree in the current job market

PhD loan scheme ‘may not be the right approach’

Study suggests that students do not want to add more debt to personal finances