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THE podcast: 14 March 2013 issue review

Podcast Powered By PodbeanOpen access policy, university sport and the impact of the government’s reforms on part-time students all feature on this ����Vlog issue review. Chris Parr is...

Leveson to be Liverpool John Moores chancellor

Liverpool John Moores University has chosen a high-profile judge as its new chancellor – although the appointment may not win many plaudits in the national press.

THE podcast: Steve Cram and Bill Tancred interview

Podcast Powered By PodbeanOlympians Steve Cram and Bill Tancred, chancellor of the University of Sunderland and director of sport at University Campus Suffolk respectively, meet Chris Parr to talk...

UUK launches review of part-time study

Universities UK has been asked by David Willetts to undertake a review of part-time study and make urgent recommendations in response to a report which shows a “dramatic decline” in part-time...

Traditional values

In our market-driven world, in which the ideals of common good are disappearing, Fred Inglis reminds us that it is the public universities that are in a pivotal position to protect our society

Presidents take on the gun lobby

Post-Sandy Hook, hundreds of American college presidents are taking on the gun lobby. Amid the US’ increasingly febrile and evidence-free policy debates, does the campaign signal a return to the ‘...

Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body by Kevin Fong

David Green on the risks and rewards of medical progress

Odds and quads - 14 March 2013

This slice of college pudding, dating back to 1897, is now in the archives of Oxford Brookes University. It was originally served at the notoriously frugal Westminster College in London, a Methodist...

THE Scholarly Web - 14 March 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Bob Welch, 1947-2013

A distinguished scholar of Irish literature who was also an acclaimed novelist, poet and playwright has died.Bob Welch was born in Cork on 25 November 1947 and graduated in English and Irish from...

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 14 March 2013

Cry 'foul' and give May the yellow card

In his critique of the sector’s approach to student visa policy (“In the twilight zone”, 21 February), Simeon Underwood suggests that the National Union of Students is “inside the [government] tent”...

Artistic assessment

In “Opus versus output” (7 March), Nicholas Till asks, can artistic practice be research? “Original composition is research” was the mantra of composers on the research assessment exercise from its...

Flaw show is not unique

As Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone point out (“Primed, but not suspect”, 28 February), the chairs of the Levelt, Noort and Drenth committees tasked with investigating the fraudulent research...

Summer kids in their ruin

You report a BBC finding that Oxbridge admission processes prefer autumn-born candidates (The week in higher education, 7 March). The next day, The Guardian published an article headed “Summer-born...