21 - 28 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism
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Hikikomori: Adolescence without End by Tamaki Saito
Atsushi Senju discusses the strange case of Japanese ‘social withdrawal’
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Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking by E. Gabriella Coleman
John Gilbey on how the geeks inherited cyberspace
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State not the only player in postgrad access game
Government loans may not be the answer, Hefce director argues. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Soft power drain
Confused political rhetoric on student visas threatens one of the UK’s greatest global assets, says Martin Davidson
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Care: a higher calling?
Ann Gallagher asks how the higher education sector should respond to the challenge set out by the Francis report into NHS failings
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Afternoon delight
Sally Feldman on the simultaneous crescendo in age and music
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Terms of disfigurement
The devaluation of the degree is often blamed on the rise of the post-1992 universities. Surely the real downfall of British university education began when college became “uni” and terms became “...
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US ‘ethical crisis’ over foreign recruitment
State cuts lead sector to impose ‘arbitrary’ student targets. Phil Baty reports from New Orleans
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Portugal’s blurred binary line needs redrafting
EUA advises greater coordination for ‘confused’ system
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BPP University College criticised in QAA report
Institutional review approves academic standards but says ‘lack of clarity’ in marketing claims could be ‘misleading’
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Stars align to protest Sussex outsourcing
But registrar insists management is on the right track
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Please Professor, I want some more
‘Grade grubbing’ may be on increase as student entitlement grows in high-fees era
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British Council spies overseas ‘hotspot’ activity
Report identifies ideal environments for UK. Jack Grove reports