Specific improvement plans needed for badly performing universities as working-class participation rises just two percentage points in four years. Melanie Newman reports
Ray J. Paul, a member of two subpanels in RAE 2008, says funding should be less elitist than it was in 2001 but argues that the use of peer review needs careful consideration if it is to be used in future assessment exercises
The 2008 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings have provoked a response worldwide, as power-shifts among the top 200 institutions are analysed.
Delegates at the union’s conference vote in favour of motion that cites the ‘apparent complicity of most of the Israeli academy’ in the ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza. Phil Baty and Melanie Newman report