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Clifford Nass, 1958-2013

A much-loved professor renowned for his work on multitasking and the impact of technology on our lives has died

News in brief - 21 November 2013

AustraliaDeregulation duo’s review briefTwo advocates of tuition fee deregulation have been picked to head the Australian government’s review of the country’s demand-driven university system. David...

News in brief - 21 November 2013

Public engagementMuseum piece of the actionA report has set out the many contributions university museums make to teaching, research and national life more broadly. Impact and Engagement: University...

Grant winners - 21 November 2013

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Kenneth SawinInstitution: University of EdinburghValue: £657,292Dynamics and interaction of cell-polarity landmark...

Could do better

Susan Bassnett’s account of the inadequacies of universities’ contribution to initial teacher training provoked much debate among my teacher educator colleagues – mostly about which of her assertions...

Sterile debate

Vince Cable thinks that nurses having degrees is “just qualification inflation” (“Vince Cable slams ‘qualification inflation’ in ‘standard’ professions”, 13 November). It is unfortunate that he is...

Independent conclusions

Gillian Evans makes some interesting observations in relation to the ����Vlog Policy Institute report on regulation I wrote with Roger Brown (“Hepi hits the buffer”, Letters, 14 November)....

V-cs come and go but staff keep discipline

While acknowledging that the chair of a university board of governors must always formally support the record of an outgoing vice-chancellor, the statement by Clive Jones, London Metropolitan...

The week in higher education - 21 November 2013

The University of Cambridge has long been a recruiting base for would-be spies, but now it seems that it is students themselves who are the focus of espionage efforts, The Guardian reported on 15 ...

1994 and All That: the tragic story

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 21 November 2013

Odds and quads - 21 November 2013

Images of pineapples can be found all over Wolfson College, Cambridge

Open University to shut ‘outstanding’ PGCE course

Institution follows Bath and offers another worrying lesson for teacher training

Gender breakdown by subject area

The gender make-up of the student population in different subject areas has been highlighted in a Department for Education report

Oxford pro v-c 'interested' in truly variable fees

Sally Mapstone throws her weight behind calls to move beyond £9,000 fees cap