Behind the mask
I would like to clarify inaccuracies in the piece about the use of silicone masks at Robert Gordon University (The week in higher education, 19 February). The university is not ending its use of the...
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Intelligent agency
I write in response to the article about the use of agents by UK universities (“Agents paid an average of £1,767 per non-EU recruit”, News, 19 February). Because of an error, the figures released by...
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Lurking in the background
In his letter “No tuition fees on principle” (26 February), Jack Douglas makes a logical error that does not help his case.If university students are funded by loans repayable by those individuals...
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No invitation necessary
The article “Social science ‘critical’ to innovation” (26 February) may have created an erroneous impression.The British Academy spans the social sciences and humanities and works with a range of...
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Welsh should roam free
In a report for the Higher Education Policy Institute last week, Welsh universities were warned that they would not necessarily see any benefit from scrapping the Welsh government tuition fee subsidy...
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There be efficiencies
Remuneration is undoubtedly a contributing factor to UK higher education’s ability to attract and retain world-leading staff (“Performance-related pay is ‘way forward’”, News, 26 February). However,...
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A welcome shift in tuition fees policy
Funding undergraduate education through the current combination of tuition fees and loans is dishonest, unfair, inefficient, unrealistic and damaging to the university. It is dishonest because it...
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News in brief - 5 March 2015
Quality assuranceQAA heads to the MedUK higher education provision in Cyprus, Greece and Malta is to be reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency. More than 20,000 students are enrolled in UK higher...
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No business like business
Source: Getty/Alamy MontageBusiness-facingIn what those with an eye for a telling headline are already calling “A shock mission admission”, our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has...
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Bulk of postgraduates ‘ineligible for loans’
Student Funder’s chief executive says an analysis shows that more than half of prospective students will miss out on the new government scheme
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Social sciences ups the PhD pace
REF data show big jumps in number of doctoral degree awards in some subjects
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Digital study may push some to web addiction
Use of online tools runs the risk of students developing problems and harming their ability to study, research finds
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EPSRC funding shifts power up energy research
Analysis reveals the winners and losers under ‘shaping capabilities’ programme
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How to cultivate the Commons touch
Seeking impact? Undertake research that prepares the ground for key political debates, says ex-Westminster insider Meg Russell