Exclusive elite fails to attract poorer students
Twenty-three higher education institutions failed to hit their targets for attracting students from poor families, new figures show.
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York St John's policing of standards worries QAA
Audit results in 'limited confidence' verdict and call for some external oversight. Jack Grove writes
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Doctor Who's defining dimension is loss
Despite its sci fi-action trappings, Doctor Who is tinged with sadness, says Will Brooker. When you travel the vortex, time is the only constant companion
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Diary
LiverpoolThe Resistible Rise of Arturo UiIn 1930s Chicago, small-time crime boss Arturo Ui and his men can provide protection - for workers, businesses and jobs. As the Great Depression hits the city...
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The Pick - Museum Show: Part 1
Recycled material: Museo Aero Solar set to soarMuseum Show: Part 1BristolMuseums have such power to determine what is important and what is not that many artists have been tempted to create mini-...
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Hello and goodbye
As usual at this time of the academic year, we are pleased to provide a transcript of our vice-chancellor's official speech of welcome to all our new students."I'm very pleased and indeed honoured to...
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The bigger, the better
Regarding "'Protected' MRC still sees fall in grant winners" (15 September): while slightly fewer grants proportionately were awarded by the Medical Research Council in 2010-11 than the previous year...
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Perishable premium
"Not such a superpower after all" (Leader, 15 September) had its pros and cons.The con was repeating the myth that the graduate premium persists with more graduates: the fact is that the comparator...
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Stick close to the nest
Peter Brady asks what would happen to UK universities if many British students decided to study abroad ("Flock may change course", 15 September). We must also ask what this would mean for the...
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Statistically insignificant
So yet another league table based on partial and inaccurate data - ie, the almost meaningless graduate employment figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency ("Salary premium from post-92s...
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Ironic, don't you think?
In "Taking Lithuanian leave" (8 September) Malcolm Gillies offers a bizarre neoliberal view of consumer culture in a higher education context: "Can we afford such generous holidays any more?"; "Will...
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Prosaic treatment
A competition to encourage medical students to write poetry is no doubt admirable ("Evoke Calliope to ease the brutalising disease", 22 September). Unfortunately, none of the winning entries is a...
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TV reviews: Fresh Meat & Educating Essex
Campus comedy may be stuck in the past but the school hall is full of innovation, says Gary Day
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Film review: Melancholia
Melancholia obliterates all around it, figuratively and literally, in Lars Von Trier's latest film, says Philip Dodd
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Ludwik Finkelstein, 1929-2011
Ludwik Finkelstein survived exile in Siberia at an early age to become one of the longest-serving members of staff at City University London and a noted engineer.Professor Finkelstein was born in...