Open and shut enquiries
Your recent coverage of open access has attracted a good deal of comment, not always well informed, on the arts and humanities realities (鈥淗igh price of gold: how early career researchers will suffer...
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No blame attached
Regarding Anthony Wilkes鈥 response to my work on the black and minority ethnic attainment gap (鈥淏laming the victims鈥, Letters, 7 February): I need to clarify that my research does not 鈥渂lame鈥 BME...
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Still looking for Richard
Strangely, Laurie Taylor did not mention the research excellence framework impact arising from Poppleton University鈥檚 discovery of Boudicca (鈥淲aking the dead鈥, The Poppletonian, 7 February): after...
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Tigger release
Robert Appelbaum discusses the perils of introducing conference speakers (鈥淧resent harms鈥, From Where I Sit, 7 February), but a choice introduction can - wittingly or otherwise - help to shape the...
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Ucas withholds 2013-14 application data
NUS says decision shows 鈥榤arket is at heart of system鈥
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RAB rise spells trouble for sector, critics warn
Hepi director predicts more cuts over higher student loan costs
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Chinese assets and liabilities for Hong Kong 鈥榟ub鈥 plans
Global push complicated by mainland links
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Germany鈥檚 Research Rating will make quality its own reward
New assessment scheme will not be used to direct cash to institutions
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Foreign tongues aren't wagging
British Academy issues warning over future of language study in UK
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Campus round-up
Source: AlamyLet鈥檚 stay together - take the bins outDid you wake up this Valentine鈥檚 Day morning to a dozen red roses and breakfast in bed? If not, don鈥檛 worry: romantic gestures are not that...
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Odds and quads - 14 February 2013
This beam engine stands on the Loughborough University campus close to the students鈥 union. It was presented to the university鈥檚 forerunner, Loughborough College, by the London Metropolitan Water...
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Theatre of war
People take refuge in drama when the bombs rain down, and the arts aid rebuilding when the guns fall silent, says James Thompson, who has travelled to some of the world鈥檚 most violent regions, only...
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Bob Geldof mouths off at Hult International Business School
Band Aid founder is latest high-profile guest lecturer at MBA college
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7 - 14 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week鈥檚 big stories
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Gold rush too fast, too furious
On open access as in other areas of reform, the coalition has failed to heed the maxim that slow and steady wins the race