Schwartz tells universities to ‘act like social enterprises’
Institutions must fulfil their historic mission of developing student potential, says former vice-chancellor
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Moocs: another weapon in the outreach armoury
Edinburgh’s principal tells conference that universities can target disadvantaged schoolchildren via the online courses
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European Investment Bank drops universities’ capital loans threshold to £70m
Smaller institutions unlikely to benefit from revised low-cost lending terms
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The best answer is still RTFM
Countless college and university presidents and deans have written memoirs over the years in hopes of providing both brilliant insights and practical guidelines. Most such works reprint or modestly...
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QAA appeals must be made public
Too much hangs on them for secrecy to reign, argues Geoffrey Alderman
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Academy must embrace new technology
Technological change is scary but we must adapt to survive, says Kevin Fong
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Gulf hopes for higher education streams
Online provision appeals to cash-strapped, unstable nations
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Please leave your brickbats outside
Can an academic conference calmly debate Israel and boycotts?
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Monsters University: college will cost you
Despite Disney Pixar’s best efforts, campus jokes just aren’t funny any more, argues Martin McQuillan
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Brighton project’s template for community outreach
Cupp scheme offers lessons for sector. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Protests derail Buckingham-Royal Anthropological Institute pact
Scholars dismayed at MA partnership with private university
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Sandel on values when everything’s for sale
Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good
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11 July 2013
10 truths a supervisor will never tell you - What every prospective PhD candidate needs to know
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THE Scholarly Web - 11 July 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Ronald Hedley, 1917-2013
The founding director of Trent Polytechnic - now Nottingham Trent University - has died