The week in higher education – 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.?Finem respice!
Chris Parr looks at the issues that THE's Twitter followers think the new universities minister should be tackling
Have we learned nothing in the past six years about the difference between mathematical models and the real world? If you put garbage into a mathematical model, you will get garbage out. If you model...
UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to...
Your financial health check of universities (“Keep squirrelling away the nuts”, Features, 30 April) showed that the sector reported net assets “excluding pension liabilities” of an impressive ?40...
In “Pay it forward” (Letters, 7?November), Dennis Leech attacks my analysis of the financial health of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest pension scheme.The basis of his attack...
Sally Hunt explains why union members are taking action this week over changes to pensions
“USS’ multibillion-pound deficit could leave staff footing the bill” (News, 31 October) reported allegations of a “black hole” in the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quoted the view that it...