Award more top degrees, university staff told. Telegraph.co.uk, 1 July.
Award more first-class degrees, lecturers told. Daily Mail, 2 July.
University's staff encouraged to award more first-class degrees so it can match rivals. The Times, 2 July.
Lift Dwain Chambers' Olympic ban. Guardian Online, 3 July.
Public concern prompts MPs to scrutinise degree grading. Times Higher Education, 3 July.
MPs ask QAA head to defend degree standards. Times Higher Education, 10 July.
Examining the evidence. Times Higher Education, 10 July.
Is it time to unleash the watchdog to safeguard our degree standards? Times Higher Education, 17 July.
Scrap unfit system of grading degrees, says watchdog chief. Guardian Online, 17 July.
QAA review needed. The Independent, 24 July.
Honesty is not the best policy. Times Higher Education, 24 July.

Professor Peter Cooke

Savings promise from cost model. Fleet News, 17 July.
New software system promises 10% cost cut. Business Car, 22 July.
Car dealer finance penetration plummets. Motor Trader, 28 July.

Professor Anthony Glees

1 in 3 Muslim students approve killing for Islam. worldnetdaily.com, 26 July.
Third of Muslim students back killings. Sunday Times, 27 July.
Radicalism, support for Sharia strong in UK varsities: study. hindu.com, 27 July.
Radical Islam gains ground in campuses. Guardian Online, 27 July.
A third of Muslim students back killings. Times Online, 27 July.
George Jonas. Study probes Islamic violence. canada.com, 31 July.

Dr Gregory Ioannidis

Thanou to fight for Olympic place. bbc.co.uk, 22 July.
Sprinter Thanou wants to race in Beijing. sportsillustrated.cnn.com, 22 July.
Greek sprinter Thanou threatens to take on IOC over Beijing participation. news.smh.com.au, 22 July.
Thanou to face disciplinary review. uk.eurosport.yahoo.com, 24 July.
Ekaterina Thanou goes on the warpath against IOC. Times Online, 31 July.

Dr Terence Kealey

Night life. Sky at Night Magazine, 1 July.
The week in higher education. Times Higher Education, 3 July.

Professor Karol Sikora

Integrated medicine training for doctors and nurses. International Therapist, 1 July.

Professor Alan Smithers / Dr Pamela Robinson / Centre for Education and Employment Research

Physics lessons in crisis as teachers leaving outstrip new recruits by more than a quarter. Daily Mail, 30 June.
Teacher shortage threat to physics lessons. Daily Telegraph, 1 July.
One school in 4 has no physics specialist. Daily Mail, 1 July.
Study reveals physics teacher shortage. inthenews.co.uk, 1 July.
School physics is under threat. Express & Star Wolverhampton, 1 July.
Subjects. Times Educational Supplement, 4 July.
Survey claims exodus of physics teachers. Public Finance, 4 July.
Now 'nanny' Balls is trying to turn our teachers into parents. Daily Mail, 4 July.
Marking 'fiddle' has boosted SATs results. Evening Standard, 10 July.
'Fiddle' on pass marks has boosted 300,000 Sats results. mailonsunday.co.uk, 10 July.
Yob pupils are driving out 40% of new teachers. Daily Mail, 11 July.
Unruly pupils drive new teachers out of profession. Times Online, 11 July.
Rowdy pupils force new teachers to quit. Daily Express, 12 July.
Labour's flawed record. Economist, 12 July.
The betrayal of boys. Daily Mail, 24 July.
Trainee teachers shun economics. Yorkshire Post, 25 July.
News digest. Financial Times, 25 July.
The second class maths teachers of the future. Daily Mail, 25 July.
Alarm at rising drop-out rate for students. The Independent, 25 July.
Trainee teachers avoid economics. Shropshre Star, 25 July.
Schools missing finance lessons. West Midlands Express, Birmingham Express & Star, 25 July.
Teachers are figuring out the climate is not economic. Birmingham Post, 25 July.
High-flying graduates still bypass the blackboard. Times Educational Supplement, 25 July.
Economics 'dying out' in schools. bbc.co.uk, 25 July.
Economics a turn-off for many teachers. Hull Daily Mail, 25 July.
Trainee teachers being driven from the classroom. telegraph.co.uk, 25 July.
Teacher training courses take on 'risky' students. Guardian Online, 25 July.
Student teachers' higher degrees. bbc.co.uk, 25 July.
Economics is disappearing due to lack of teachers. South Wales Argus, 26 July.
The unravelling of a cure-all qualification. New Statesman, 28 July.

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Alumni in the news

Dean Junayed Miah (Law and Politics, 1998)

was interviewed on 21 July at 22:00 on 3 Counties Radio.

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Students in the news

Sally Anne Oultram (Law)

introduced the Shire Horse Society Spring Show from Peterborough for the Country Channel.

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Appearances and publications

Professor Geoffrey Alderman

gave an address "Jews, history and politics" to the Symposium Whatever Happened to British Jewish Studies, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, 15 July.
read a paper on "Jews, Judaism and English Law" to the conference Sharia: A Way Of Life hosted by the Islamic Shari'a Council and held at the Islamic Cultural Centre, London, 20 July.
contributed to "The Jewish connection" on BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour, 13 and 20 July.
External links to Part 1 and Part 2.
Alderman, G. I too have a problem with the Jews. Jewish Chronicle, 4 July.
Alderman, G. The POW swap was a bad deal. Jewish Chronicle, 18 July.
Alderman, G. Our 150 years of wasted power. Jewish Chronicle, 25 July.
Alderman, G. Controversy and crisis: Studies in the history of the Jews in modern Britain (Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press, 2008)
Read about this book in our Publication of the week section
Alderman, G. Secretive and powerful - The Anglo-Jewish establishment, Manna, Summer 2008, 4-5.

Professor Peter Cooke

recorded a short radio interview on the June car sales figures which was broadcast on the BBC regional / local programmes on 4 July.

Professor Alan Smithers

was among the 50 invitees to the Carnegie Corporation / Sutton Trust Summit on Social Mobility in New York, 1-3 June, attended by senior politicians and researchers from the United States and UK.
gave a keynote presentation on "Checks and balances on implementation of 14-19 reform" to the 14-19 Reform Conference, ThinkTank Science Museum, Birmingham, 3 July.
was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 6 June (Diploma Report), 30 June (Physics Report) and 18 July (SATs debacle).
Smithers, A. & P. Robinson. The Diploma: A Disaster Waiting to Happen? (Buckingham: Carmichael Press, 2008).
Smithers, A. & P. Robinson. Physics in Schools IV: Supply and Retention of Teachers (Buckingham: Carmichael Press, 2008).
Smithers, A. & P. Robinson. The Good Teacher Training Guide, 2008 (Buckingham: CEER, 2008).
Smithers, A. A level-two pie in the sky, The House Magazine 1270, 14 July 2008.
Smithers, A. Heads must roll over the SATs debacle. The Independent, 24 July.

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Local news

Ban the bags. Buckingham Advertiser, 30 June.

Founders of festival are honoured. Bicester Review, 18 July.

University box (Buckingham & Winslow Advertiser; Brackley & Towcester Advertiser; Bicester Review)

4 July: Summer party and UBAA
18 July: New publications

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