Overseas student numbers ‘to rise by 30,000’
Overseas student numbers are set to rise by 10 per cent over the next decade, a British Council study has said.
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Thomson Reuters announces launch of third annual Academic Reputation Survey
Over 200,000 academics are currently being invited to provide their expert opinion for the world’s biggest survey of university reputations.
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Russell Group expansion leaves 1994 Group short
The universities of Durham, Exeter, York and Queen Mary, University of London, have joined the Russell Group, it has been announced.
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Inside Higher Ed: No kidding: birth control and college completion
By Paul Fain, for Inside Higher Ed
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Hefce still cautious despite ‘record’ surpluses for universities
Measures of the financial health of universities are the “best on record” but the sector faces “a large degree of uncertainty” in future, according to England’s funding council.
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University is about job prospects, say parents
Only a quarter of parents believe the primary purpose of university is to broaden children’s minds, according to a new survey.
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Student finds historic letter from women's rights campaigner
A PhD student at the University of St Andrews has discovered a letter pleading with the institution to allow women to study medicine and written by one of the pioneers of the fight to allow female...
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Former head of energy giant approved as EPSRC chair
The former head of energy firm E.ON UK will become chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council after his appointment was approved by MPs.
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University fees tipping point reached
Tuition fees and education contracts took over from funding body grants as the most important income source for UK universities in the most recent full academic year, according to the latest...
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Fee cap frozen for English universities
The maximum tuition fees that can be charged by universities in England are to be frozen at £9,000 for the 2013-14 academic year, the government has announced.
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Satisfaction and its discontents
The National Student Survey puts pressure on lecturers to provide 'enhanced' experiences. But, argues Frank Furedi, the results do not measure educational quality and the process infantilises...
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Imperial echoes
'Internationalisation' is the trend du jour for universities, but they would do well to consider its earlier manifestation during the British Empire's long 19th century. As Tamson Pietsch explains,...
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Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
David Nutt applauds a well-balanced evaluation of narcotics law, with all its inconsistencies and flaws
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Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation
A grand biological theory for what makes us so special does not convince Steven Rose
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The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
This is a very unexpected book. Brad Gregory's first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, was much admired: a detailed, scholarly work that stayed fairly firmly in...