That'll tide us over: how overseas students help the bottom line
This graph, from a Higher Education Statistics Agency report, shows how institutions in the four nations of the UK rely on very different types of student for their tuition fee income.
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Elite play game of thrones with no fear of secession
Unity confirmed, but Russell Group's new chair will have to deal with Gove. John Morgan reports
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German leaders, not students, reject charges
Opposition to tuition fees among German students is waning as they reap the benefits of extra educational funds, a conference has heard.
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Tasty morsels on the social science menu
Leading social scientists are distilling some of their biggest ideas into an easily digestible series of podcast interviews.
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Pianist wants comeback as review hits bum notes
Middlesex fellow faces 'Kafkaesque' scenario over failure to win Follow-on cash. Paul Jump writes
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Raising the tone
A university was the venue for an aerial concert by brass players from the Lancashire Sinfonietta. Five of the musicians donned hard hats and harnesses to scale the climbing wall at Lancaster...
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Unicorns and sex? Out of this world
Peer-reviewed scholarship takes on demons and ghosts. Matthew Reisz prepares for an encounter
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News in brief
Patent protectionEuropean plan threatens spin-offsHigh-tech spin-offs may find it more expensive to protect their inventions if proposals to create a single European patent go ahead, MPs have said....
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Scholar lost in desert of despair guided by beacon of hope to oasis
Matthew Reisz meets a refugee academic given new life, just like the one saved by THE readers' support
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News in brief
AustraliaTo boldly have another goA struggling university will undergo a "bold and exciting" restructure to boost its standing, according to its vice-chancellor. Peter Dawkins, head of Victoria...
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It is the East, and Rising Sun is the new object of affection
Jack Grove reports from Tokyo on De Montfort's canny cultural diplomacy
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHAnglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanitiesJoint applications for up to €40,000 each have now been...
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V-cs: useless or priceless?
Fred Inglis and Nicola Dandridge offer diametrically opposed views of the quality and value of the academy’s leaders
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Stand up for shelf life
Badger your MP and kick up a fuss: London Met's treatment of the Women's Library must be challenged, argues June Purvis
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The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Women are born to demand their share - just ask the hunter-gatherers, argues Camilla Power