By David Matthews. Scholar urges delegates at conference in the Netherlands to use measures like Twitter to measure public engagement, rather than turning them into new metrics. More...
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Altmetrics risk becoming part of problem, not solution, warns academic
Higher apprenticeships lead to ‘greater earnings than most degrees’
By Chris Havergal. But Sutton Trust analysis says that while learning on the job can be a good alternative to university, too few qualifications are at this degree-equivalent level. More...
Open access papers 'more likely to be cited on Twitter'
By David Matthews. Articles that are free to view are also more frequently shared on Facebook, new research finds. More...
Social scientists asked to comment on early career support
By Jack Grove. Views of early career social scientists will be collected with a view to improve support for those starting out in academia. More...
London Met to focus teaching on single campus
By Jack Grove. Teaching on its Aldgate and Moorgate campuses will be moved to Holloway Road from 2017. More...
US university presidents visit Cuba as diplomatic relations thaw
By Matthew Reisz. Deeper academic collaboration between Cuba and the United States has now been put on the agenda. More...
University of Oxford entry interview questions revealed
By Chris Havergal. Sample list of questions says applicants were asked about bankers’ pay and invited to carry out an engineering experiment with a ruler. More...
Angus Deaton wins 2015 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences
This year’s Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences has been won by Angus Deaton “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”.
Now Dwight D. Eisenhower professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, Scotland-born Deaton grew up in Edinburgh, a city to which, he once told Times Higher Education, he attributes “a strong empirical tradition” as well as his own “dour scepticism”. More...
Cambridge to launch £2 billion fundraising campaign
By John Morgan. Philanthropy allows innovation ‘free from constraints of political and economic change’, says v-c. More...
Osborne plan to force current students to pay more for loans ‘unfair’
By John Morgan. GuildHE declares ‘absolute opposition’ to move, saying it goes against assurances to Parliament and students. More...
