International students ‘do not use Facebook to choose their university’
Only 4 per cent of international students use social media to select a foreign university, according to a worldwide survey of undergraduates.
Search
-
-
Tech-savvy students want real-life lecturers too, study finds
Universities have been warned not to assume that “digital native” students will embrace all e-learning initiatives, or indeed prefer them to traditional forms of education.
-
Police pay £20k to Nottingham student arrested over terror manual
A student who was arrested after downloading an al-Quaeda training manual from a US government website during research for his master’s degree has been paid £20,000 by Nottinghamshire Police in an...
-
Lecturers up the ante with vote for campaign of industrial action
University and College Union members have voted to hold “sustained industrial action” over cuts to their pensions, potentially disrupting exams and assessment at 67 universities.
-
True colours
The provocative 'Blue Labour' and 'Red Tory' visions for renewal put forth by two academics have the ears of their respective party leaders - and a good deal in common, says A.W. Purdue
-
Jumping off the page
When Jorge Cham adapted his hugely popular PhD cartoon for film, he eschewed animation and hired real Caltech students and academics for his comically true-to-life doctoral tales. Paul Jump reports
-
The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz
Robert Eaglestone is gripped by an exploration of the nexus between literature, society and the Holocaust
-
The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam
Petra de Vries finds an analysis of the Dutch sex trade vividly conjures the scene from the brothel
-
Work's Intimacy
In a lively and compelling read, Melissa Gregg examines the impact of technologies on the work and lifestyles of employees in the knowledge economy. This book covers a lot of ground in a relatively...
-
Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition
In the vortex of angst generated by scandal at News International and the complicity of Britain's political class, it is cheering to read a book that makes one feel a little more optimistic about the...
-
Virginia Woolf
A focus on the joyous and teasing spirit in the writer's lyric novels appeals to Deborah Longworth
-
Art without an Author: Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's Death
Earlier this year, The Guardian devoted one of its "In praise of..." editorials to Giorgio Vasari, on the 500th anniversary of his birth. It celebrated one of the most remarkable and influential...
-
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
In the 1980s, the Brundtland Commission's report on sustainable development radically stated that the environment was important for the poor. Damage to the environment was caused by the poor, but...
-
News in brief
United StatesCuts call for campus autonomyA US state university system should loosen its control over its 26 campuses, according to a report. The recommendations to the University of Wisconsin, given...
-
Sciences Po proves critics of 'priority' scheme wrong
Poor students thrive at elite university and go on to earn more than their peers. Jack Grove reports