Labour hopes free tuition policy can tip balance in university seats
Labour MP and Corbyn critic Wes Streeting poses question of whether ‘bold’ pledge will boost student turnout
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Tory review of tertiary funding could bring ‘price competition’
Baroness Wolf welcomes manifesto promise of ‘major review’ while others attack ‘crazy’ overseas student policy
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Australia: demand for private provision grows, says report
Undergraduate student numbers at for-profit colleges grows almost 20 per cent between 2013 and 2015
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EU backs 'science diplomacy' in Middle East with synchrotron support
European Commissioner for research sees Jordan investment as contribution to peace and stability
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Ghana president: technical education key to country’s future
Nana Akufo-Addo tells student audience that country must invest in education to prosper
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Change attitudes to avoid pensions bust-up
Sally Hunt explains why employers must change their ‘counterproductive’ attitudes towards risk to avoid further cuts to academic pensions
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Ulster: Brexit brings hard realities and hard border threat
All-Ireland student visa needed to cope with Brexit fallout, says v-c
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Interview with Nicole Prause
We talk to the neuroscientist and sex researcher about prudish attitudes, personal threats and what goes on in a sex research lab
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World University Rankings 2010-2011 table information
Editor’s note A key principle of our revised rankings system in its first year is that it includes only institutions that assented to join the profiling process and that have provided and verified...
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Disability on campus: the challenges faced and change needed
Five academics talk about the issues associated with various disabilities and what should be done to improve support
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Conservative manifesto: a pledge to cut overseas student numbers?
John Morgan looks at the Tory manifesto pledge to keep students in net migration target and to hold ‘major review’ of tertiary funding
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How internationalisation crushes national character
The need to accommodate foreign students undermines domestic practices, says Lincoln Allison, spying parallels between UK universities and global sports bodies such as Fifa
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Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind, by Kevin N. Laland
Steven Rose on an eloquent explanation of the rapid mechanisms of human cognitive evolution
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Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination, by Robert Bickers
Jonathan Mirsky on a complex history of a country struggling to regain control of itself