Fool’s gold
Gun. Foot. Fire. Only in an Olympic year could someone come up with the bizarre proposal to simplify attempts to measure the quality of university teaching into gold, silver and bronze and, at the...
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Significant others
One advantage of having a partner who is an academic (“Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic”, Features, 20 October) is that one can moan about the NSS, TEF, REF, QAA, Hefce, KIS, CSTs and...
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Overseas campuses can be both meaningful and viable
Western universities’ desire to go abroad and multiply, in a variety of models, is not always ill-advised
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Academic gossip network ‘fails to punish senior scientists’
Anonymous interviews explore how scholars use gossip to warn others of wrongdoers – but it may not always work
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New book attacks China’s gao kao ‘meritocracy’
As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China
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End-of-alphabet surnames ‘do not harm careers’
Myths about the impact of having a surname starting with a letter late in the alphabet have been debunked by a new analysis
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Colombia forges stronger HE links with Britain
Greater student mobility and research partnerships should emerge from an accord that forms part of presidential visit
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US news presenter criticises university ‘vanity projects’
Greta Van Susteren says universities should stop ‘billing’ students for ‘hugely expensive’ new buildings
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Third arrest in New Zealand in overseas loan debt crackdown
Arrest comes as government targets up to 10,000 borrowers living in Australia
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Poi PhD student wins three-minute thesis competition
University of Auckland student claims the top prize for Universitas 21 3MT competition
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Zimbabwe’s higher education minister battles corruption probe
Jonathan Moyo and deputy deny wrongdoing as fate of $450,000 from skills development fund is investigated