State-funded overseas exchanges: scholarship or tourism?
Nations paying to send students and researchers abroad often fail to assess their value, study finds
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Nigerian university united by Islamist terror
Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack
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Thinktank adds to pressure to take students out of net migration figures
Bright Blue campaign challenges coalition policy
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Love of learning is the new employability
Ensuring that skills are used at work will soon be a focus of future education debate, Pearson report argues
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Scholars explore impact of funding changes in Europe
Book examines the effects of ‘modernisation agenda’ on the Continent’s public universities in a time of austerity
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Former lecturer at Imperial College London wins compensation for unfair dismissal
But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude
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World in brief - 8 May 2014
FranceExchange workshopMeasures to help more students, staff and PhD candidates at French universities spend time abroad have been explored at a special workshop on the subject in Paris. The...
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Grant winners - 8 May 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Dmitriy RumyninInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £152,563Hecke algebras and Kac-Moody groups: representations, lattices and...
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Duncan Dallas, 1940-2014
A man who revolutionised public engagement with science has died
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Q&A with Dame Nicola Brewer
We speak to the new vice-provost (international) at University College London, a former High Commissioner to South Africa
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THE Scholarly Web - 8 May 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 8 May 2014
Teacher trainingGove announces reviewMichael Gove, the education secretary, has announced an independent review of the quality and effectiveness of initial teacher training courses. The review, which...
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Different corners
Robert Gellately’s review of Richard Evans’ Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Books, March) suggests that the author’s critique of the “what if” genre throws the baby out with the bathwater...
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Needling your neighbour
Thanks to William Poole for his useful review (Books, 24 April) of Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo.I now realise that Thomas Harrison’s arca studiorum, “a kind of...
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Tax returns
Australia invented the “income contingent contribution” concept, a much better way to see the student contribution.When the Dearing Committee first debated the principle in 1996, the lifetime...