Private colleges investigated amid fears of fraud
SLC discusses whether students are genuine and attending classes despite confusion over who should investigate
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UK universities: from excellence to omnishambles
A raft of short-sighted policies are causing harm, says Sir Roderick Floud
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Subsidies and uncapped fees ‘most rational’ way to finance universities
Vice-chancellor claims that removing the cap on fees and subsidising poorer students would work but is a ‘toxic issue politically’
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Imperialist metric systems
Inappropriate measures of performance are detrimental to the intrinsic motivations of an academic workforce
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University of Warwick gags critic of 'authoritarian' sector
Suspended professor prevented from speaking at conference
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Cast adrift: an adventure in academic editing
David Mould on fine-tuning the work of a global group of novice researchers
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‘Cut 50% of universities and bar undergraduates from Oxbridge’
Sir Roderick Floud, former UUK president, criticises duplication and waste in ‘muddled non-system’
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The trouble with taught degree-awarding powers
Nick Hillman on plans to use the powers to sort good universities from bad
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Tuition fees subsidise research in ‘unfunded’ social sciences
Dame Judith Rees, former LSE interim director, warns of problems as students’ awareness of value increases
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Cheating common, say Brazil’s students
Report points to prevalence of plagiarism and low awareness of academic integrity and referencing conventions
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Warburg Institute: library saved from Nazis awaits its fate
Collection could be broken up in legal action over 1944 deed of trust
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FutureLearn ‘delighted’ at response to first Moocs
User data for initial online offerings show that 13% of those who sign up finish their courses
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Tentacles: the new fangs (and teaching tool)
Sea monsters are inspiring new critical theory and can even be a useful tool in the seminar room, says Roger Luckhurst
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Principals will remain neutral on referendum
I was very interested in ߣߣÊÓƵ’s coverage of the Scottish independence referendum debate and its implications for higher education.I feel obliged to correct the implication in the...
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Laurie Taylor on the endangered art of ethnography
The power of immersive research, and what it is like to be an academic who spends months at sea