We'd welcome ways to solve the postgrad funding puzzle
Minister frustrated by lack of 'lively debate' about issue key to sector's future. Paul Jump reports
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Heif concentration provokes mission group ire
The decision to limit an additional £6 million of Higher Education Innovation Fund cash to just 12 institutions has angered some sector leaders.Plans were announced on 13 September to allocate the...
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Caste into darkness? Academy losing soul in 'Faustian bargain'
Metrics maketh the sector more stratified, NYU leader warns. Elizabeth Gibney reports from Paris
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Answer that, would you? Alarm sounds for the exam ringers
European conference warned of the growing threat posed by bogus students. Jack Grove reports
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Young doctors need guidance on career paths inside and outside campus
Graduate schools should publish data about their former students' careers to inform doctoral candidates about their job prospects.
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At the top, too short a season
Internationalisation stymied by the Continent's fixed-term leadership. Jack Grove reports
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Have you seen our vice-chancellor?
Following the discovery from a recent staff survey that 35 per cent of Poppleton academics had never seen our current vice-chancellor, we learn of a new university initiative to increase his...
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Speed trap sprung
Susan Bassnett says that many play fast and loose with foreign students
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Research intelligence - What's on the cards for the REF?
Speculation rife on GPA thresholds as sector gears up for submission process. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Learning how to provide Vegas' circus maximus
Jon Marcus meets the engineers specially trained to create Cirque du Soleil's astonishing special effects
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The week in higher education
• An archaeological dig by university researchers in a council car park has apparently uncovered the skeleton of Richard III, The Daily Telegraph reported on 13 September. Academics from the...
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Leader: No one is escaping the mire
With student admissions down 54,000 on last year, even elite institutions are facing severe financial hardship
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From Where I Sit - Dissociated thought, bloody act
On a recent visit to Bergen in Norway, it was raining and, gloomily, everything on the menu was fish. The Anders Behring Breivik trial was coming to a close in Oslo yet you couldn't get it on the...
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Odds and quads
This sculpture of a "terror bird", with painted polystyrene eye, can be found in the Alfred Denny Museum at the University of Sheffield.