Recruiters go straight for the parents
Universities aim for credit at bank of mum and dad in high fees era
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Professorial position: Liverpool, think again
We recently heard that the University of Liverpool intends to issue dismissal notices to 2,803 “non-academic” staff – 54 per cent of the institution’s workforce (“here for the full list of...
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Durham looks at bond route to fund capital projects
Council gives go-ahead to consider using bond to fill gap left by public funding cuts
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Social sciences targeted in ‘ideological’ war on research
Calls to restrict fields’ funds and scope of study alarm US academics
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Contact lenses
However you cost student contact time, it is very expensive. A crude estimate can be made by dividing tuition fees by contact hours – £9,000 for 300 hours’ contact comes to £30 an hour, which is...
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The week in higher education
In a thorough cock-up, the Indian Journal of Surgery has had to retract a paper on “Penile Strangulation by Metallic Rings”. According to the Retraction Watch website, the article tells the eye-...
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Population number crunch
Demographics suggest that some universities may have to rely more than ever on overseas students for financial stability
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Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe by Costas Douzinas
Pavlos Eleftheriadis on an angry book charting a volatile situation
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Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools by Adam R. Shapiro
Simon Underdown on a key battle between science and religion
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Count Arthur Strong
Gary Day welcomes the master of malapropism to a screen with a scale that matches his talent: small
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Global academy bends to the winds of demographic change
Danny Dorling considers how population change influences the shape and direction of higher education in fundamental ways
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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste by Philip Mirowski
A powerful critique of neoclassical economics raises profound questions for all, says Christopher Phelps
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Bite club: fangs, gangs and the hounds of hell
How a brutal murder led one academic to the underworld of dogfighting
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Leader of the ‘anti-university crusade’
David Matthews meets Simon Dolan, multimillionaire and higher education sceptic
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'Migrant health levy' planned for overseas students
International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least £200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.