The week in higher education
In a thorough cock-up, the Indian Journal of Surgery has had to retract a paper on “Penile Strangulation by Metallic Rings”. According to the Retraction Watch website, the article tells the eye-...
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Population number crunch
Demographics suggest that some universities may have to rely more than ever on overseas students for financial stability
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Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe by Costas Douzinas
Pavlos Eleftheriadis on an angry book charting a volatile situation
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Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools by Adam R. Shapiro
Simon Underdown on a key battle between science and religion
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Count Arthur Strong
Gary Day welcomes the master of malapropism to a screen with a scale that matches his talent: small
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Global academy bends to the winds of demographic change
Danny Dorling considers how population change influences the shape and direction of higher education in fundamental ways
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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste by Philip Mirowski
A powerful critique of neoclassical economics raises profound questions for all, says Christopher Phelps
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Bite club: fangs, gangs and the hounds of hell
How a brutal murder led one academic to the underworld of dogfighting
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Leader of the ‘anti-university crusade’
David Matthews meets Simon Dolan, multimillionaire and higher education sceptic
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'Migrant health levy' planned for overseas students
International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least £200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.
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Offa warns on part-time and mature student access
Dramatic falls in part-time and mature student numbers must be tackled to ensure people from poorer families have the chance to go to university, access head Les Ebdon has warned.
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Welsh fee policy ‘drains £15m’ from country
The Cardiff government’s policy of subsidising Welsh student fees when they study elsewhere in the UK has been attacked by the Welsh Conservatives, who say it is siphoning money to English...
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Obesity Tweet "not part of research"
A Tweet sent by a University of New Mexico psychologist, which suggested that obese people do not have the willpower to complete a PhD, was not, as its author had claimed, “part of a research project...
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Disabled Students’ Allowance caps ‘should be scrapped’
Caps on the Disabled Students’ Allowance mean that students are not receiving the support they need, a recent report has claimed
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Attitude blamed for lack of big science facilities
A paucity of suitable sites, a “stand-offish” attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the...