Boris comments prompt Twitter backlash
London mayor Boris Johnson has provoked a storm of criticism on Twitter after joking that women in Malaysia need to go to university to find a husband.
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Inside Higher Ed: No Right Answers
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed
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Students’ parents ‘need more information’ on finance
Ministers should focus more resources on explaining the student finance system to parents to avoid children being put off university by debt, a thinktank says
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Soas cleaners protest over work rights
Outsourced cleaners from Latin America have picketed a London university over calls to have them put on the institution’s payroll.
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Ben Jonson journey recreated on social media
Scholars at two UK universities are to recreate the 400-year-old walking adventures of celebrated playwright Ben Jonson using social media.
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Staff redundancies totalled 3,000 before fees hike
More than 3,000 higher education staff were made redundant as the sector prepared for the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees, a new study says.
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Exam howlers wanted
Do your students know their vellum from their valium and their buffer zones from their buffet counterparts?
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Btec STEM report - 'too few' girls going on to university
Girls are outperforming boys in the sciences but are still not choosing to take such subjects ahead of university, a study on vocational qualifications has found.
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Graduates from state background ‘do better overall’ in job market
Students entering university from state schools perform better than expected when securing a job after graduation compared with the privately educated, a new report says.
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Cameron letter reveals thinking on international students
David Cameron has told David Willetts to build the UK’s offer to overseas students into a more persuasive “package” and urged him to attract more foreign universities to Britain.
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University of Manchester issues bond
The University of Manchester has become the latest university to launch a bond issue to raise money for capital investments.
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David Blunkett joins Sheffield as visiting professor
Former home secretary David Blunkett is to become a visiting professor at the world’s first centre for the public understanding of politics, at the University of Sheffield.
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University graduate employment figures revealed
Graduates from London South Bank University are the least likely to be in a job or studying six months after leaving, latest employment data have revealed.
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THE podcast: 4 July 2013 issue review
Download the podcastA lack of rewards for high-quality teaching, the impact of global demographic changes on higher education, and research into the role of dogs in UK gang culture are among the...
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Fang-gangers
The use of pit bulls in a brutal murder led a criminologist to a dangerous underworld of gangs, backstreet breeding and dogfighting. Jack Grove reports