Campus round-up - 6 June 2013
Source: Arts University of BournemouthExpress yourselfTwenty budding creatives have been crowned the winners of a university-developed art competition that “supersizes” the best entries on to...
Source: Arts University of BournemouthExpress yourselfTwenty budding creatives have been crowned the winners of a university-developed art competition that “supersizes” the best entries on to...
Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...
In just over half a century, the cohort entering higher education has risen from under 5 per cent to nearly 50 per cent of the UK¹s young people, changing the face of the academy for ever. Five...
Five scholars and a recent graduate look back on their experiences during a period when the sector changed for ever
One of the UK’s most vocal vice-chancellors has stepped down suddenly because of ill health, it was announced last week. Patrick McGhee, vice- chancellor of the University of East London and chair of...
A new open-access journal that will allow researchers to publish a paper every year for a one-off fee of just $99 (£64) has prompted hopes that a more competitive market in open-access fees may soon...
The provision now being made for career breaks in the research excellence framework to which Daniel Hill refers ("Double standards", Letters, 26 July) is essential and long overdue.Some years ago, I...
Working-time culture: no need for taught CVsI sympathise with Steve Sarson (“Students are sent to the rat race maze: syllabus is history”, Opinion, 21 March). Like him, I teach history undergraduates...
Openness must be a two-way streetThe feature about openness in universities (“Show and tell”, 4 April) implicitly makes a point about asymmetry. If institutions are not open, how can they make claims...
Scholar bemoans impact of employability agenda on academic standards. Matthew Reisz reports
University of BedfordshireHearts on sleeves wear out fastSocial workers who get too involved with the problems of their clients report higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression, which can lead...
A university’s links with industry, providing placements and internships, are increasingly important to students and form a key indicator in our survey. David Matthews explores this fast-evolving area
Answers on a postcardWork by photographer David Bailey, animator Nick Park, film-maker Mike Leigh and fashion designer Sir Paul Smith are among 2,700 pieces of art featuring alongside students’...
Tim Luckhurst, professor for journalism and the news industry, Kent University, was former duty editor of the Today programme, not its deputy editor, as reported last week.
As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers