Stand-out marketing
I was unsurprised to read about the increase in marketing spend by post-1992 universities (“It’s spend, spend, spend to attract students, but does anyone notice?”, News, 20 March).Recent research by...
I was unsurprised to read about the increase in marketing spend by post-1992 universities (“It’s spend, spend, spend to attract students, but does anyone notice?”, News, 20 March).Recent research by...
Omar Malik writes a good knock-about review of Matthias Beck and Beth Kewell’s Risk: A Study of its Origins, History and Politics (Books, 13 March), but he clearly read a different text from the one...
The news that the government’s loan scheme is likely to be as expensive as the system it replaced because of the amount of student debt that may never be repaid (“New fees regime edges close to cost...

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

We speak to the new professor of economics at the University of Manchester

A leading researcher in thermodynamics has died
Harris (2014) in a popular higher education publication writes that the effect of the system of referring to academic writers exclusively by their surname distances readers from the author and...

Birmingham and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pledge coordination on multidisciplinary research projects

Study of the economic impact of graduates recommends universities should be placed at the centre of strategies to boost regional growth

Academic seeks to gather examples of cases where open access article fees have been paid but content remains behind a paywall

Pro v-c at Nottingham Trent attacks ‘profit chasing’ in sector and calls time on marketing speak

James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, said that he wanted to ‘underline’ a ‘message of welcome’ to international students

Sanaz Raji criticises eight-month wait for decision from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator

Film draws on 1980 work to expose philosopher’s ideas to general audience

Shahidha Bari finds vivid and lurid representations of the unnerving normality of the everyday in today’s Rwanda