Wave of private subsidiaries tests the barriers of regulation
Rise in number of university offshoots raises questions about oversight and status. John Morgan reports
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Offa's 'Imperial lad' ready to access all areas in leading role
Les Ebdon discusses context, excellence and life-transforming opportunities with John Morgan
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Sensible economic actors' script says spend, spend, spend on marketing
Income from higher tuition fees will flow into universities' expanding marketing departments and budget surpluses rather than efforts to improve the student experience, a round-table discussion on...
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Examination of mental anguish
Doctoral student told to 'completely rewrite' PhD takes sense of injustice to OIA
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A transformative activity
In education as in nature, feedback should lead to change, says David Boud - and courses must be reshaped to allow it
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'One strike and you're out' sends a damaging message to the world
The UKBA's revocation of London Met's licence to accept non-EU students is detrimental to our global reputation, says Eric Thomas
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News in brief
United StatesPremature litigationA federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit issued by a US college against the Obama administration's "contraception mandate". District judge Ellen Segal Huvelle rejected...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.• Award winner: Alasdair Nisbet• Institution: Moredun Research...
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Overseas students should not count towards net migration, say MPs
A committee of MPs has called on the government to exclude overseas students from figures on net migration, warning that current policy risks "undermining a world class export market".
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'No need for alarm' - private provider speaks out
In an exclusive conversation with our veteran reporter Keith Ponting (30), the head of Poppleton City's for-profit College of Hedge Fund Studies, Mike Sartorious, has spoken frankly about the growth...
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Harold Shukman, 1931-2012
A leading authority on Russian history, politics and culture has died.Harold Shukman was born in London on 23 March 1931 and had a fragmented early education until national service offered him the...
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International amnesty the least it could do
I work in a voluntary capacity with international students in Bristol. I am also engaged in documenting the history of foreign students in the UK since 1960.The current situation at London...
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Shelf delusion
Sarah E. Thomas, Bodley's librarian, understandably mounts a defence of a great library in "Brickbats don't stack up" (Letters, 30 August), her reply to my letter of 23 August ("Shelf harm"). However...
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This corrosion spreads
Terran Lane struck a chord with me, irrespective of the obvious differences between the US and UK higher education systems ("I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right",...
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One for all
I am glad that Søren Holm thinks my book Bioethics: All That Matters is an accessible and readable introduction (Books, 9 August), but it is unfair of him to "ghettoise" it as being relevant only to...