The week in higher education
? An open letter to The Daily Telegraph on 7 December from nearly 500 professors lamented that the government's higher education White Paper would allow "private, for-profit companies substantial...
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From where I sit - Ethical engagement
In Mexico, shortly after Felipe Calderon took the presidential office in December 2006, he launched a major crackdown on the country's drug cartels. Since then, it has been estimated that about 45,...
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Appointments
University of New South WalesMichelle SimmonsA quantum computation expert has been honoured as New South Wales' Scientist of the Year at the NSW Government's Science and Engineering Awards 2011....
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Leader: Together, they are stronger
To compete on the world stage, universities are increasingly considering mergers as a way to enhance status and expertise
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Research intelligence - Oh Lords, please don't let me be misunderstood
EPSRC heads see no contradiction in peer review policy, but critics remain puzzled. Paul Jump writes
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Thinking of a Master Plan
Alan Ryan on how California’s famed system might work in the UK
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15 December 2011
Blooming marvellous - Dutch plan to grow prize specimens
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Soas takes legal steps to end occupation
The School of Oriental and African Studies has begun legal proceedings to end an occupation of one of its buildings.
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Hints of Higgs boson 'set scientific world agog’
“Tantalising hints” have been discovered of the fabled Higgs boson – but the data are not yet strong enough to make any conclusive statements about its existence.
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Course to address dearth of physics teachers
Thirty higher education institutions are to offer a new teacher training programme in physics and mathematics, it has been announced.
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New retraction of paper by husband and wife research team
Another paper authored by University of Manchester professor Sylvia Bulfone-Paus has been retracted – but this one does not feature the Russian postdoctoral researchers blamed for misconduct that led...
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Queen Mary academics pass latest ‘no confidence’ vote in Willetts
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
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About-face by Oxford University Press
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Pull the ladder up: a third of graduates want fewer uni places
A survey has revealed that graduates are more likely to support increased tuition fees and a reduction in the number of university places. Thirty per cent of graduates believe that opportunities to...
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Journalism academics blame newsrooms, not classrooms, for press scandals
University journalism courses are not responsible for the industry’s ethical failings, such as the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, journalism lecturers have told the Leveson inquiry