Employers Pensions Forum seeks more public cash
Group behind USS overhaul applies for further £100,000 award. John Morgan reports

Group behind USS overhaul applies for further £100,000 award. John Morgan reports
A £5 million-a-year partnership between India and the UK is to help the world's second most populous country in its bid to treble the number of university places to 40 million.

UK risks 'almost exclusively' educating foreign students, arts university chief tells Simon Baker
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has written to vice-chancellors urging them to consider derecognising the University and College Union if it "refuses to address claims of institutional racism".
Conference hears that both competition and collaboration will grow as global trade in higher education booms. Sarah Cunnane reports from Vancouver
A wide-ranging analysis that attempts to measure and rank aspects of national higher education systems suggests that the UK academy is one of the most "open" in the world and has among the best...
Private-sector leader explains why India remains a potent but elusive prize for the West
Universities face an uncertain future in the wake of the earthquake, reports Michael Fitzpatrick
Coalition policies deserve opprobrium - a minister cut from the same cloth as the academy does not, says Wes Streeting

Even elite universities can profit from the flexible, diverse curricula pioneered by Universal Design Learning, argues Rachel Adams

Simon Gray's sharp portrait of a self-sabotaging T.S. Eliot scholar remains poignantly recognisable, observes Deborah Bowman
LondonSchiller's Luise MillerIn Friedrich Schiller's play Intrigue and Love (Kabale und Liebe, 1784), which Verdi used as the basis for his 1849 opera Luisa Miller, Ferdinand von Walter - son of the...
Government Art Collection: At WorkWhitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Government Art Collection dates back to the 1890s and includes 13,500 works, two-thirds of them on display at any one time, but...

Scores of journalists descended on Poppleton this week following the shock news that Professor Gordon Lapping, formerly Head of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies, is to set up his very own...
Even in the web age, academic get-togethers remain relevant, says Alice Bell