Q&A with Alison Wheaton
We speak to the CEO of GSM London (formerly Greenwich School of Management)

We speak to the CEO of GSM London (formerly Greenwich School of Management)

The latest higher education appointments

Tempting as it might be to take advantage of the marketing opportunities available by associating Darth Vader with the University of Leicester as Times Higher Education suggests (Week in Higher...
As the authors of the report on the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s role in teaching enhancement, we were disappointed that your article concentrated only on the weaknesses of the...
Victoria Halman is right to highlight the differences in the distribution of classifications between subjects (“Marked differences”, News, 31 July). However, she might have also pointed to the...
Tim Birkhead and Bob Montgomerie mostly blame school science teaching for an increase in scientific fraud (“School for scandal”, Features, 7 August). They correctly determine that fact-based teaching...
The human wrecking ball David Willetts is lobbying for universities to “buy” student loan debt (“Willetts’ loan book plan: capital idea or half-baked notion?”, News, 7 August) and wants the...
Your article “Turnitin ‘nears end of charmed life’ amid complaints over cost” (News, 31 July) might be because Turnitin has diversified from being a focused plagiarism detection service to become a...
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has been warning the government for years that most teachers who don’t become senior leaders will have their student loans written off. Now it seems that...
Michael Shattock characterises the large pay gap between vice-chancellors and lecturers as “out of hand” (“Bad result in student numbers game can still mean a pay rise”, News, 7 August). As a retired...

BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time became the unlikely subject of accusations over racist subtexts. The Daily Mail reported on 5 August that Ben Pitcher, senior lecturer in sociology at the...

Source: AlamyGaza conflictNUS supports boycott of IsraelThe National Union of Students has voted to support a boycott of Israel. The union’s national executive council voted on 4 August, during the...

Students who go straight to clearing in the search for a university place are more likely to be aged over 21, male, from England, and come from disadvantaged backgrounds than those using the standard...

Glyndwr University offers £200 to entice new students with US-style marketing technique