Ministers bring forward student support cutbacks
Britain’s poorest students are set to lose bursaries and other support worth £100 million next year after ministers fast-tracked planned cuts.
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University of Sussex threatens legal action after reoccupation
Students have reoccupied a conference centre at the University of Sussex that was at the centre of previous protests over the outsourcing of services.
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THE podcast: 28 November 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThe expansion of student numbers at private colleges, some universities’ snobby approach to credit transfer, and the launch of a national higher education computer network are all...
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Student loan forecasts ‘consistently’ wrong, says NAO
Ministers have been accused of “industrial scale incompetence” after a damning report on student loans was released by the public spending watchdog
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Twilight of the mission groups?
Ourania Filippakou and Ted Tapper consider whether they are heading for extinction
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Qualifications ‘snobbery’ holds back poorer students
Traditional ‘royal route’ to a degree holds sway over credit transfers
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YouthSight shows how to tap irrational postgrad decision-making
Firm looks at potential for using behavioural economics in student recruitment
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Employment skills don’t fit with academic degrees
UK needs more vocational higher education alongside traditional courses, says Nick Davy
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Q&A with Sir Paul Nurse
We speak to the Royal Society president and director of the Francis Crick Institute. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Distant Love, by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Les Gofton on ‘world families’ and globalisation
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Must academics researching authoritarian regimes self-censor?
In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark
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28 November 2013
Academics sans frontières - Is self-censorship the price researchers must pay to access politically sensitive regions?
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Odds and quads - 28 November 2013
Born in 1937, Ed Ruscha began his career within pop art and has since become a leading figure across the visual arts through drawings, “word paintings”, photographs and films. In 2013 he appeared in...
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THE Scholarly Web - 28 November 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Patricia Buffler, 1938-2013
A leading researcher on childhood cancers has died