White knight defence
The CDBU’s set-up is too narrow, too limiting: to fulfil its aims it must reach out and diversify, argues Alice Bell
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Smiley's people
Christopher Bigsby on cases not of single spies but battalions
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No boom, no bust for rentier model
Supportive voices petition Cambridge authority over massive property deal. John Morgan reports
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US student imports and exports hit record levels
The number of overseas students attending university in the US reached a record 764,495 during the 2011-12 academic year, according to figures from the Institute of International Education.The data,...
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Canberra's watchdog: teething pains or too many teeth?
ߣߣÊÓƵ swapped its higher education quality agency for a body with more powers and a much bigger appetite for detail. A year later, the sector is still eyeing Teqsa warily, reports Paul Jump
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Victor Anderson, 1922-2012
A research oceanographer who made a major contribution to the development of sonar has died.Victor Anderson was born on 31 March 1922 to missionary parents in Shanghai, where his father was principal...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonSuffer the migrant childrenA film charting the plight of a young Afghan refugee deported from the UK has been submitted as evidence to a parliamentary human rights...
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Largely peaceful NUS protest ends in ugly scenes
A National Union of Students protest against tuition fees and youth unemployment ended in ugly scenes today when a splinter group forced the union's president from the stage during the closing rally.
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Parents call for Lib Dem scalps as students march again
Liberal Democrat MPs who signed a pledge against increasing tuition fees should not stand for re-election, according to parents quizzed in a new poll.
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Moocs model moves into community colleges
Students at two US community colleges are to be given access to a tailored online computer science programme delivered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), thanks to a grant from the...
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Report shows Oxbridge influence
A third of Britain's most high-profile people went to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, a study has found.
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Inside Higher Ed: Seeing is believing
By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed
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Oil and gas giant launches scholarship programme
BP has launched a new scholarship programme for "talented science, technology, engineering and maths undergraduates studying at nine selected universities across the UK".
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Student visa difficulties easing, agent survey indicates
Agents for international students looking to study abroad have reported fewer difficulties in obtaining student visas for the UK than last year, according to a new survey.