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Pious platitudes should not obscure the current realities about international education in the UK. It is a largely commercial operation, synonymous with the recruitment of full fee-paying students...
Pious platitudes should not obscure the current realities about international education in the UK. It is a largely commercial operation, synonymous with the recruitment of full fee-paying students...
Regarding "Ignorance is strength" (Opinion, 24 May): Felipe Fernández-Armesto might enjoy his pub quizzes a little more if he reread Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie article on...

US universities aim to attract students and business by opening cross-country branches
Harvard-based Satellite Sentinel Project offers cutting-edge support to humanitarian initiatives. Jon Marcus reports
Anglia Ruskin UniversityFarah MendlesohnA newly appointed professor of literary history at Anglia Ruskin University said it was the "sheer diversity" of her new department that drew her to the job....
University of StrathclydeCutting-edge researchThe UK's first Fraunhofer Centre, a branch of Europe's largest applied research organisation, is to be established in Scotland. German-based Fraunhofer-...

In a competitive world, Japanese universities are realising the importance of internationalisation if they don’t want to get left behind. But culture change can be a slow and difficult process. Jack...
Josh Howgego and Paul Jump report on EPSRC efforts to train researchers with all-round acumen
The Finch group's open-access task is tricky, but has it missed a trick by not investigating publishers' profit margins?
Since early 2011, Germany has been rocked by a series of scandals relating to ethical breaches in doctoral dissertations authored by high-profile figures. These range from huge tracts of work being...
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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
• Is a letter signed by the vice-chancellors of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge one of the most powerful pieces of paper in existence? Many will be wondering after a U-turn by the government...

A ‘black ship’ moment - Japan again plays catch-up with the world

Between the fatuous emotion and the response falls Christopher Bigsby