How times change. Some five years ago, the buzzword in Indian higher education was expansion. The 2007-12 Five-Year Plan - a mechanism by which, in part, the government formulated its economic policy...
This photograph features a scene from the 1904 revival at the Moscow Arts Theatre of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths, about a group of impoverished Russians living together in a shelter by the...
University of BedfordshireJonathan Black-BranchThe new head of the University of Bedfordshire's School of Law believes it is well placed to be a "formidable force in legal education" after recent...
Many universities are improving the experience for their students, as our survey shows. And they are achieving it by making the effort to understand their students’ particular needs. Zoë Corbyn...
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
Alison Oram on a tale of two very different 19th-century women who lived as men: the charming butch and the fragile androgyne
Academics at the Rothamsted Research laboratory have launched a direct appeal to protesters not to trash a trial crop of genetically modified wheat at a protest planned for later this month.
The despair over unemployment that sparked the Arab Spring continues to dog graduates in the region. David Matthews reports from a British Council conference in Morocco that aimed to find solutions
The news that a private equity group has purchased the private not-for-profit College of Law (The week in higher education, 19 April) raises again the question of whether there should be stricter...
Amid all the media coverage of the "sale" of the College of Law, it is worth trying to pin down the issue of degree-awarding powers as the prime concern of the purchaser.The College of Law as a...
The Higher Education Policy Institute report on universities and devolution produced by Tony Bruce ("Price of avoiding the market: your freedom", 19 April) usefully begins an overdue discussion about...
The story "Restructuring metrics could fail to add up" (19 April) highlights the pernicious atmosphere pervading universities that aim to improve their research standing. Does this ever work? Not if...
The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London displays the Athena Swan Bronze Award on its website, demonstrating its commitment to the advancement of women in...
Biological sciences at Queen Mary is a hub for photosynthesis and aquatic research. Beyond model organisms (yeast, Drosophila, zebrafish, Arabidopsis), we study locusts, spiders, beetles, ants, bees...
Edward Acton's suggestion that international students be removed from net migration figures should be adopted if the UK is to build on one of its strongest exports ("Why so prickly?", 19 April)....