Experiential enterprise: can-do students need hands-on teaching
Sector failing to keep pace with changing labour market, scholar warns. Chris Parr reports
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Euro portal offers open view of distance options
The first website in Europe dedicated to information about the Continent's open and distance-learning courses has been launched.
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News in brief
United StatesBled dry over a decadePublic research universities in the US are under threat from budget cuts that have amounted to one-fifth of their state funding over the past decade, a report warns...
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Après lui, le déluge: secrets of Descoings' court stun France
Audit into governance and pay at Sciences Po has implications beyond the institution, says Jack Grove
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RsProject Grants• Award winner: Andrew Cossins• Institution: University of Liverpool• Value £440,093The...
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You look foreign: bring your passport, it's what the UKBA would want
Overreaction to the London Met case has exacerbated institutional racial harassment, Scott Poynting and Ann Singleton argue
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Out for the count
Scrapping the UK census would damage social science and weaken the evidence base for state funding decisions, warns Andrew Miller
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Labour urged to disarm fees using 'non-nuclear option'
Ex-minister advocates scrapping of Trident to reduce tuition costs. John Morgan reports from Manchester
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Mahmood moots 'hybrid' model of funding
Shabana Mahmood, the shadow higher education minister, has said she is interested in exploring a "hybrid" funding system between tuition fees and a graduate tax as an alternative to current...
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We Hear you got a first but what else have you done?
Degree classification 'should not be only measure of achievement', says report. Jack Grove writes
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Queen Mary job losses provoke industrial action
Queen Mary, University of London, could see strike action within a month after members of the University and College Union voted to take industrial action over a redundancy scheme at two of the...
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Dyson: Cameron to OK postgrad funds
Entrepreneur says pay for science researchers could rise to £40K. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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LSE is fine, but it's not a room of their own
Supporters of a renowned women's library have criticised the decision to move it to the London School of Economics.
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Stressed academics are ready to blow in pressure-cooker culture
UCU survey suggests that staff are finding life in the academy too demanding. Jack Grove reports
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Give online portals some commercial polish
Universities are missing out on applications, as well as thousands of pounds in income, because their websites are outdated and unappealing to prospective students, a digital agency has warned.