Branch campuses spread East to meet Asian demand
The number of overseas branch campuses set up by universities has reached 200 with another 37 planned, as activity shifts from the Gulf region to Asia.
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Gender segregation could lead to better results, psychologist claims
Segregating male and female students could lead to better results for both sexes, a psychologist at Manchester Business School has claimed.
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Lancaster looks to Lead business and grow its own
A university is launching a training scheme for leaders of small and medium-sized enterprises on the open market after running over 1,000 heavily subsidised courses.
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US for-profits leave students worse off
'Agile predators' deliver increased debt and lower pay, Harvard study suggests. Simon Baker reports
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Did the academy's USP go AWOL when it started chasing money?
An overly biddable sector may have succeeded in making itself redundant, Matthew Reisz hears
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In hungry times, post-92s grow keen on Lean
Teaching-led universities have been more open than research-intensive institutions to adopting a Japanese manufacturing technique designed to cut out "wasteful" inefficiency as they face a tougher...
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Willetts cooks up 'half-baked' plan for science institutions
Clarification needed on how any of the proposed consortia partners would benefit. Paul Jump writes
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Visitors deserve the best
Anti-immigration policies, an Indian student's murder - the UK government needs to forge better foreign links, urges Keith Vaz
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Technology and innovation at the core of the Big Apple
The legacies from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in 2008 include years of turmoil on Wall Street and a nosedive for the Western world's economies.Now add to the list a science...
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Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Recalling the past and claiming expertise in how we do it can be fraught affairs, Alan Collins writes
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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
A tome trumpeting the historical significance of sounds is music to David Toop's ears
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Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
A recent heart-rending animal story concerned mummy and baby elephant trapped in mud, dying of thirst, and soon to be dinner for hyenas and lions. They were rescued, of course, and the predators had...
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The Faith of Girls: Children's Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood
Where once it was only poets who believed that childhood had a distinctly spiritual flavour, more recently a body of research evidence from psychology, theology and education concurs that children do...
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Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright
Fierce defence of intellectual property limits free speech and stifles creativity, finds Matthew Rimmer
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A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
The one constant about China is its complexity, at least for those outside. Finding the right conceptual framework within which to fit this continent-sized country has proved elusive. As Aaron...