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Grant winners - 5 September 2013

National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research programmeAward winner: Sarah ByfordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £675,578The cost and cost-effectiveness of...

George Watson, 1927-2013

A maverick English don who often contributed to ����Vlog has died

Appointments - 5 September 2013

Royal College of ArtJordan Baseman“If you had told me when I was 22 and graduating from art school that I would spend almost my entire adult life working in art schools I wouldn’t have believed you...

THE Scholarly Web - 5 September 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Satire is dead

A concern when reading Jamie Targett’s latest communication on performance management in The Poppletonian (29 August): I had previously thought there was a satirical element to this column. I now...

Keynesian scale

It is erroneous of Kitty Stewart to declare that J. M. Keynes’ famous quote “In the long run we are all dead” had anything to do with the idea that economies left alone recover from recession on...

Unintended consequences

There are three unspoken consequences of Michael Gove’s A-level reforms (“Remaking the grades”, 15 August).Parity of status between the qualifications and technical courses may exist in politicians’...

Bang for your Bucks

����Vlog’s international and postgraduate student fees survey (8 August) lists the University of Buckingham as charging the most in the UK for domestic and European Union undergraduates...

Does not compute

You recently reported ����Vlog Statistics Agency figures on graduate unemployment by subject, with medicine and dentistry having the lowest rate and computer science the highest (“Try turning...

Daft, not stupid, question

Allan Johnson struck a chord with his piece on question-and-answer sessions at academic conferences (“Interrogative mood music”, 29 August). However, I would like to point out that one type of...

Dangerous combination

Siana Bangura talks of “the sheer number of hours that go into making a stellar application to Cambridge or to Oxford” (“Right combination”, Letters, 29 August), while emphasising “the holistic...

Literary scientific theory

David Aberbach’s arguments for cross-disciplinary study are compelling, but apply beyond the humanities: scientists should read literature, too (“A taste of Hard Times”, Opinion, 22 August). Our...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 5 September 2013

Feeling less than zero

The growth in zero-hours contracts threatens the reputation of our universities and the morale of their staff

The week in higher education - 5 September 2013

Universities are always trying to show that they provide a unique “student experience”. When students pay up to £730 a month for a room without a view save for a brick wall, mission accomplished. A...