Funding councils publish REF open-access proposals
The UK’s higher education funding councils will not express a preference for either green or gold open access in their submission rules for future research excellence frameworks.
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UCU set to strike at Birmingham
Unionised academics at the University of Birmingham have voted to strike over threatened compulsory redundancies and “aggressive” management tactics.
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Memoir delves into university stalking
The memoir of a creative writing tutor stalked by a former student turned “verbal terrorist” is attracting widespread attention.
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US aims to engage Muslim world via higher education
The idea of “education diplomacy” has “really arrived” at the highest levels of American foreign policy, a US State Department official has told an international higher education conference
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Mooc providers expand
Two of the leading US massive open online course providers have each almost doubled the number of universities offering courses on their online platforms.
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Peers lament open access 'confusion'
The lack of clarity over Research Councils UK’s new open access policy is “unacceptable” and government ministers should learn lessons from the confusion, according to a House of Lords report.
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Gloucestershire goes INTO joint venture
The University of Gloucestershire has agreed to validate a range of pre-degree courses for international students as part of a new tie-up with private firm INTO University Partnerships.
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THE Scholarly Web - 21 February 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Ronald Dworkin, 1931-2013
The world’s most celebrated philosopher of law, hailed as a “genuine public intellectual”, has died.Ronald Dworkin was born on 11 December 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied at Harvard...
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News in brief
United StatesLegal challengeRepresentatives from the US legal profession have called for drastic changes in law education, including more practical training. The proposals come in the wake of...
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Campus round-up: 21 February 2013
A chance to learnAn academic has been honoured for his role in founding a school in Nepal for children with no prior access to education. Kevin Fossey, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton...
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Local TV stations offer broadcast work to students
University partnerships with broadcasters in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Oxfordshire allows those on journalism courses to hone skills
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Wales gives best value for QR cash, study finds
Welsh universities lead the UK in terms of output quality per pound invested, says report from Learned Society of Wales
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Odds and quads - 21 February 2013
Based in North Easton, Massachusetts from 1803, the Ames Shovel Company flourished during the gold rush era and, by 1879, was producing three-fifths of the world’s shovels.Today, 783 of them,...
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Fergal Keane gives new perspective on war, history and the media
University of Liverpool’s new professorial fellow brings practical experience to academia