Have ‘safe spaces’ limited art students’ licence to offend? Matthew Reisz talks to Grayson Perry and an academic expert on performance art about the limits of student artistic expression in higher education Matthew Reisz 1月 24日
Teaching-only contracts up again as REF approaches Almost a third of staff in UK higher education are now classed as teaching-only Simon Baker 1月 24日
Oxford start-up hub aims to help create 4,000 jobs Research England throws weight behind new innovation project that promises to raise nearly ?1 billion in private capital Jack Grove 1月 24日
Number of researchers in REF ‘up 43 per cent’ under new rules Big increase would represent less than three-quarters of eligible headcount suggested by official data Jack Grove 1月 23日
UK universities ‘increasingly reliant’ on Chinese fee income Chinese students worth at least ?1.7 billion to sector, representing more than 10 per cent of revenue at several institutions Simon Baker 1月 23日
V-c calls for admissions quotas to create mixed-ability campuses Open 51国产视频 head says that students should be randomly allocated if a university is oversubscribed Anna McKie 1月 23日
We need to know which widening participation initiatives actually work There is evidence of success in changing attitudes, but effects on admissions remain woefully under-explored, says David Robinson David Robinson 1月 23日
French business schools sell luxury lifestyle to Chinese recruits Institutions launch courses focused on top brands and spirits to boost international recruitment Anna McKie 1月 22日
Ex-Richmond v-c files complaint against charitable funder Complaint to Charity Commission alleges that funding to university was suspended, but foundation chair rejects claims as ‘without merit’ John Morgan 1月 22日
SOAS blames ‘challenging’ finances as research leave cancelled Union condemns ‘short-sighted’ suspension of institution-funded research leave, saying move amounts to ‘institutional self-sabotage’ Jack Grove 1月 21日
Kate Barker to succeed David Eastwood as USS chair Birmingham v-c to step down from pension fund board this August Chris Havergal 1月 21日
Backlash over call for ‘Darwinism’ in French research funding Ahead of a new law that critics fear will reduce tenure rights, French scientists have opposed CNRS chief’s full-throated support for competition David Matthews 1月 21日
