What are you reading? – 29 October 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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QAA acts on concerns over college provision of Pearson programmes
Fifteen per cent of recommendations issued to further education colleges by watchdog relate to courses leading to the FTSE 100 firm’s qualifications
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‘Are you a construction worker?’ Life as a black Rhodes scholar
Donald Brown shares the experiences that prompted him to talk about ‘institutional racism’ at Oxford
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The week in higher education - 29 October 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 29 October 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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We must act now to save part-time university education
Higher fees are to blame for plunging enrolments, says Claire Callender, and dismantling of provision may make loss irreversible
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Climate change will take all our expertise
Universal challenges demand cross-disciplinary focus, argues Dame Julia King, and a thematic approach to university teaching will be essential
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Laurie Taylor – 29 October 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The discontent of South Africa’s students goes beyond fees
The country’s young are angry about more than just tuition costs, which is why solutions are difficult, says Martin Hall
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One site does not fit all
We wish to register our dismay at vice-chancellor John Raftery’s asset-stripping, course-closing, job-cutting plan for London Metropolitan University, which has been spun as a “one campus, one...
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Eager, not exploited
Not all foreign education providers in South Africa are new or there to exploit a country and continent, as your editorial might suggest (“Africa needs education, not exploitation”, Leader, 22...
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Arts alive and well
The article on Yale-NUS College misrepresents the state of humanities education in Singapore (“Yale-NUS College extends reach of liberal arts’ ‘forbidden fruits’”, News, 22 October). The National...