Boris seeks to boost London's HE image in India
London mayor Boris Johnson has used a trip to India to highlight his concerns that the UK government’s visa rules are deterring students from the country from studying in the capital’s universities.

London mayor Boris Johnson has used a trip to India to highlight his concerns that the UK government’s visa rules are deterring students from the country from studying in the capital’s universities.
At a time when the universities of the Ivy League are increasingly looking to Asia and even Latin America as research partners, European institutions need to collaborate far better if they want to...

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed
Issues including whether the humanities have a place in 21st-century nations will be among those discussed at the British Council's Going Global conference next year, it has been announced.
Business schools are failing to help mid-sized companies as much as they could and so are holding back the UK's economy and society, a new report has concluded.
Schools should ignore the "dreadful snobbery" that puts pressure on them to send as many pupils as possible to elite universities, according to the head of the Office for Fair Access.
The College of Law has been granted university title and will be known as the University of Law.
'He Jargon' competitionAward-winning waffleThe University of Leeds has won the inaugural Times Higher Education "HE Jargon" competition to uncover the worst examples of management waffle circulating...
United StatesTown, gown and frownsA US university has been urged by the mayor of its municipality to build bridges with the community as it searches for a new president. The "town and gown"...
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHEfficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programmeAward winner: Costantino PitzalisInstitution: University of LondonValue: £1,002,635Developing a novel, biopsy-based...

Politicians, pay heed: if you bottle the post-Leveson chance to reform the nationals, heaven help British public life, warns Steven Barnett
FoI reveals moves and countermoves in struggle for state cash and influence. John Morgan writes
Post-1992 universities could begin to change their legal status and open up to private investment in the wake of the University of Central Lancashire's application to the government to become a...

Fears of a Starbucks future raised as Oxford debates Bodleian changes. Matthew Reisz reports
Fear of appearing weak may discourage staff and students from disclosing illness. Jack Grove writes