Recruitment trends favour the selective
Universities with high tariffs gain most under new fees regime, Hefce finds
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Hefce looks at overseas links for research excellence
Willetts sees potential in tie-ups with ߣߣƵ, New Zealand and Hong Kong
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US academics rally to union standard
As lecturers in the UK prepare for the UCU’s marking boycott, US campuses are experiencing a surge of unionisation
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THE Scholarly Web - 10 April 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Graduates will be paying well into their fifties
Under new system, average repayments will double, IFS finds
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There’s still no such thing as a higher education market
Years after Thatcher, says Simon Marginson, commerce is marginal to the sector. True competition would destroy its essence
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Beyond naked power
Vice-chancellors and those who select them might learn from the successes – and notable failures – of politics
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Revolutionary road to higher standards in Ukraine
Nation’s universities to face QAA-style scrutiny under new regime
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A Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros
Laurence Coupe admires scholarly insights of a kind the REF could never hope to measure
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Improving English channels
A course from the UK can’t simply be transplanted overseas even if the language used is the same, says Rebecca Hughes
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A-level changes criticised by scientific community
Scientists have reacted angrily to changes in A-level content announced by Michael Gove.
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Toni Pearce re-elected NUS president
Toni Pearce has been re-elected as the president of the National Union of Students in a landslide victory
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Boris: scientists in UK have ‘certain fastidiousness about money’
Commercialising research can do ‘far more’ for humanity than Nobel Prizes, says Mayor of London
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Video: 2014 Globalization of Higher Education conference
Hillary Clinton, Martin Bean, Naledi Pandor, Arne Duncan and others on the future of higher education
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NUS blasts David Willetts over changes to disabled students’ support
David Willetts is “arrogant and out of touch” in seeking “unfair” cuts to disabled students’ funding, according to the National Union of Students.