News in brief - 20 November 2014
European CommissionChief scientist role scrappedScientists and science bodies have reacted with dismay to the decision by the European Commission to axe the post of chief scientific adviser. The role...
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Librarians are just the job
As I sit in the Medical Library of the University of Cambridge pondering the outbreak of the Ebola virus, a librarian is giving skills training to two postgraduates, one postgrad is writing a paper...
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Revisionist view of closure
As someone who has studied the field of international relations, Steve Smith will be well acquainted with the idea of regimes trying to rewrite history for their own purpose. So it is that since 2005...
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Standard measures
A revealing approach to tackling the challenge of the relative standard of degrees (“Unknown qualities”, Features, 13 November) might be to require universities to publish not just syllabuses but...
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Now is the time to call pensions conference
We are dismayed to see that the University and College Union has proposed a career revalued benefits scheme for pensions that, if accepted, would considerably worsen our terms and conditions of...
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I can see clearly now!
Source: AlamySuggestions that Plymouth University is currently beset by “uncertainty” after the recent return to office of its vice-chancellor, Wendy Purcell, have been described as “maliciously...
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The week in higher education - 20 November 2014
Matt Taylor from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission must have thought he’d been dropped on a comet given the column inches he commanded last week. In just days, he went from being feted as...
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Defence must not rest
With cuts looming on the horizon, the sector cannot afford to relent in pressing the case to protect the research budget
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HE in FE: truths and illusions
Degree courses at further education colleges have the potential to ‘change lives, not society’, argues scholar
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High and popular culture to meet in new postcolonial studies centre
More football, less theory, says heroin scholar at the head of new hub
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Campus close-up: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
A London club’s Middlesex University-accredited two-year degrees promise a pitch-perfect environment to study football
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Canada and the ‘war on science’
Stephen Harper’s government is accused of ‘muzzling’ federal scientists at a time of concern over funding. Is it time for more academics to speak out?
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How to create a successful start-up incubator
Tips on shaping the right environment to encourage entrepreneurial skills and create links between universities and industry. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London
The pioneers who examined human sexual desire took personal risks to uncover the realities of sex, this exhibition shows. Fern Riddell writes