Grant winners – 11 February 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Better than blue skies: blending techniques leads to innovation
New models of scientific discovery eschew the principle of basic research first, says Ben Shneiderman
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Non-EU students are now being sacrificed as political pawns
The forced departure from the UK of a US PhD graduate is a wake-up call to universities, which must respond, argues Martin McQuillan
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If the teaching excellence framework is worth doing, it’s worth doing well
We need more time to road-test the TEF, develop the right metrics and get everyone on board, argues Bill Rammell
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Attainment: a third option
In your article “Universities defend access record after Cameron criticism” (1 February) there appears to be a consensus that to overcome the continued inequality in access, more cooperation between...
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What for the HEA?
The very existence of the Higher Education Academy seems so central to the Green Paper’s proposals to construct a teaching excellence framework that it is bewildering to find only a scattering of...
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Take it all in
In the article on how higher selectivity of research papers fails to increase impact, Pascal Rocha da Silva, process strategy manager at open access publisher Frontiers, writes that a rejection rate...
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Come to a good end
Toxicology, the study of poisons, is now a mature branch of science, but there are other kinds of toxicity. One of these is the idea of a “good university”, and I believe that this is a “toxic idea”...
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Laurie Taylor – 11 February 2016
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