A peek at ߣߣƵ's Petri dish
What can the UK learn from the uncapped student numbers 'experiment' that is already in full swing Down Under? Explosive" is the word used by one vice-chancellor to describe this week's figures...
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Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity, by Melissa Aronczyk
The ‘nation brand’ phenomenon is unsustainable, says Rula Al-Abdulrazak
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Damn lies and prospectuses
“You’re not suggesting that I deliberately colluded in a falsehood?”That was how Angela Topping, our Deputy Head of Prospectus Management, responded to the suggestion from reporter Keith Ponting (30...
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Stellacci ‘stripy nanoparticle’ dispute heats up
Analysis critical of professor’s discovery claim is published on arXiv
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Dating game: US undergraduates get lessons in love
Students assigned an old-fashioned date by Boston College lecturer
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Anglo-Indian ties have been ‘butchered’ by May
UEA head blames home secretary for UK’s first fall in international students
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A revolutionary mission statement: improve the world
Addressing global problems should be the academy’s raison d’être, argues Nicholas Maxwell
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UCU 'U-turn': some members say leaders are backing off showdown
Some members have branded the University and College Union’s decision to hold a series of two-hour strikes a “shameful” attempt to scale back industrial action over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer
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High and arbitrary fees
Charging high fees for the right to reproduce photographs of out-of-copyright artworks in academic publications is, as Robin Simon has written in the British Art Journal, a “loathsome practice” that...
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Student complaints about assessment grow as fee levels rise
Increasingly litigious students are consequence of consumerist nature of universities, says lawyer
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QAA seeks new quality development director
Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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A peek at ߣߣƵ’s Petri dish
What can the UK learn from the uncapped student numbers ‘experiment’ that is already in full swing Down Under?
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Reclaim your linguistic property
Chants, used positively by Tottenham Hotspur fans, must not be appropriated by anti-Semites looking for an excuse to tout hatred, says Emma Rees
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Are questionable marketing claims slipping past the watchdogs?
The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses
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23 January 2014
Sea change - Winners and losers in ߣߣƵ’s uncapped student numbers race