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News in brief - 9 October 2014

Postgraduate studyUK survey verdict: mostly happyFour out of five postgraduate students are happy with their course, a new survey indicates. Some 83 per cent of the 67,580 people polled for the...

Grant winners - 9 October 2014

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Alexander BeltonInstitution: Lancaster UniversityValue: £84,895Quantum random walks and quasi-free quantum stochastic calculusAward winner...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 9 October 2014

Oxbridge union for London

With seven first-class universities in the ����Vlog World University Rankings 2014-2015 concentrated in London, more than in any other city in the world, is it not the time for Oxbridge...

A funny queasy feeling

Are those of us who savour the irony of a British professor’s feeling the need to write “in a personal capacity” about academic freedom (Thomas Docherty, “Jobsworths and squatters”, Books, 2 October...

Taking PhD skills as read

We were interested to read “On the PhD quest, the first step is always an open book” (Careers intelligence, 2 October), emphasising the role of extensive reading in the establishment of an...

Entrenched economics

The subject of economics appears to be stuck in a deep rut of rote learning, complex mathematical-based theory and squabbling over ideologies rather than devising good advice for business. So why,...

Market gains

The report on the colloquium on the marketisation of higher education held at the University of West London to celebrate the work of Roger Brown, with notes on inputs from Joanna Williams and Patrick...

Cyber-squawkers are go

Felipe Fernández-Armesto (“Careless talk costs you”, Opinion, 25 September) and Christopher Davidson (“Heard mentality: if you want to multiply your flock, use Twitter”, Opinion, 2 October) offer...

An NHS for education may remedy UK ills

Danny Dorling presents a worrying portrait of growing economic inequality in the UK and argues that “schools and universities could be seen to be adapting to, and reinforcing”, this situation (“...

The week in higher education - 9 October 2014

Stumped about how to enthuse the latest batch of grumpy, hungover 18-year-olds to grace your 9am Monday lecture? Don’t worry, help is at hand from the country’s top independent schools. School heads...

Power to the purple

Source: AlamyChristine Hovis, our deputy head of corporate branding, has admitted to a “degree of professional jealousy” upon learning that Leeds Beckett University (formerly Leeds Metropolitan...

Lower tuition fees would only benefit high earners, says Lib Dem MP

MP attacks Labour’s plan and urges his own party to spend spare public funds on bursaries

Swansea University passes QAA review after upscaling quarrel

Positive feedback as agency makes recommendations after controversy over student grades at the School of Management