Visa rules change but the door remains open
Non-EU students still able to pursue sub-degree qualifications. John Morgan writes
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MPs demand teacher training shake-up
Select committee wants higher entry requirements and an end to undergraduate-level provision. John Morgan reports
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The insecure scholar: A faint whiff of security
A positive start at a new university makes the possibility of finding the dream job more believable
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Take a number: applications to study rise 23%
Universities call for more funded places as recession intensifies competition for places.
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Catcher revisited
In the aftermath of J. D. Salinger’s death, Robert Segal looks again at the novel that made his reputation, and asks whether it is relevant today
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Two-tier system should replace ‘ramshackle’ university governance
Higher education expert to argue that current system falls between two stools and ‘will not do’. Melanie Newman reports
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‘Independent’ Oxford application exposes system’s weaknesses
First-year student who claimed to have more than ten A-grade A levels suspended while ‘discrepancies’ are investigated. Melanie Newman reports
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OU limits Clubcard fee-payment scheme to first years
Students protest at loss of financial aid. Melanie Newman reports
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Strike threat as job cut talks break down at Leeds
Vice-chancellor maintains compulsory redundancies are a ‘very last resort’
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Truth? There's the rub
Politicians and people profess to prize authenticity and integrity, but discerning the truthful person from the sincere but self-deceived and the dissembling is tricky. Simon Blackburn ponders...
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Extreme makeover
The University of Hong Kong has rebuilt its curriculum from the ground up to embrace 'experiential learning' and internationalism so as to produce 'global citizens'. Hannah Fearn reports
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Pecking order
Peter Lennox keeps chickens, and they have taught him a great deal about behaviour, ethics, evolution and the psychopathic nature of modern 'efficiency'
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Book of the week: Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness
John Gilbey is reassured that not always having an answer is normal
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The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror
All terror is "rhetorical", for terror tries to be persuasive. It tries to convince a public to think and feel one thing rather than another. But surrounding the rhetoric of terror comes another...
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The Canon: Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies. By V.F. Perkins
Growing up in the 1980s, how I wished films were an intravenous fix. You can understand how satisfying it was to discover Film as Film, albeit in the years after I finished my BA.Film as Film...