News in brief - 10 July 2014
Vice-chancellors’ payGoldsmiths gives students a sayA London university has become the first in the UK to allow a student to join the panel that decides its vice-chancellor’s pay. A student will now...
Vice-chancellors’ payGoldsmiths gives students a sayA London university has become the first in the UK to allow a student to join the panel that decides its vice-chancellor’s pay. A student will now...
Focus on league tables could shift Middle Eastern universities from honourable priorities, argues Cesar Wazen
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on a shrewd analysis of the global order
The fact that firsts are far more common in science than arts boosts case for reform of UK system
Fred Inglis on the obligation of academics to speak truth to power
Web Science Institute aims to produce multidisciplinary research and graduates ready to play key roles in the digital economy
Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality
Farzana Shaikh finds persuasive arguments in an analysis of democracy and military rule in Pakistan
Soas, University of London has been awarded a £20 million gift, the largest in its history, by a US foundation
IoE/UCL mergerAll done bar the due diligence?A merger of the Institute of Education and University College London is set to be completed by December after the institutions’ governing councils gave...
But more than 40 per cent are registered with Oxford Brookes, says Hesa
Scotland’s ‘international university’ is investing in growth at overseas and domestic sites
Five youthful institutions that have jettisoned tired thinking are blazing their own paths ahead
Health FoundationAward winner: Sara DemainInstitution: University of SouthamptonValue: £238,000Self-management VOICED (valued outcomes of importance: consensus and disparity) Leverhulme TrustMajor...
Seven men rule the Middle Kingdom, but why them? Jonathan Mirsky on a study of Party potentates