Institutions must ‘modernise’ their creative skills teaching
Leading designers discuss how UK institutions must adopt technologies and work with industry
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Evil Men by James Dawes
Joanna Bourke reflects on torturers, murderers and the paradoxes of portraying suffering and trauma
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Raising awareness of best-practice pedagogy
Graham Gibbs asks what ‘study skills’ consist of and whether they can actually be learned by students
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Academy's multi-billion-pound windfall for UK PLC
Universities contributed £3.4 billion to the UK economy in 2011-12 in services to business and the community, figures published in the Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey...
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Unwanted side-effects
When anthropologists pointed out that cultural factors impeded tropical disease treatment campaigns, some fellow scientists reacted with outrage
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Go open plan to open hearts and minds
Existing office set-up is outdated, v-c argues
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Campus round-up - 30 May 2013
Source: University of BristolSnap judgementThe photographic skills of staff and students at the University of Bristol have been revealed in a competition designed to get people thinking about what...
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A little healthy criticism
The principle of challenging accepted views is vital for the administration of banks, universities, even medicines
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Quartet pay hefty admission fee to join elite club
Russell Group’s latest members have agreed to stump up £500,000 each
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Inside Higher Ed: Harvard profs consider Mooc ethics
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cable criticises any gloating over immigration figures
Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement
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Sally Hunt: Time to get our act together
Call to put differences aside, ahead of UCU Congress in Brighton
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IPPR calls for £5k cut-price degrees
Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of £5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts
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Female converts to Islam considered in new study
A major new academic study exploring the attitudes of women who have converted to Islam in Britain looks at issues ranging from dress codes to divorce, marriage to media stereotypes and spirituality...
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Greenwich launches investigation in wake of Woolwich murder
The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at...