Campus round-up
University of BathTo beat diabetes, sprintCouch potatoes are being sought to take part in research into Type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Bath have shown that performing a couple of...
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London's distance learning division joins Coursera
The University of London has become the first higher education institution in England to offer courses via US-based online learning platform Coursera.
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Don't get mad, get even
"Instead of adding to the overall footprint we are looking at the whole envelope of estate in terms of its conditionality."
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Formal investigation launched into work at dean's lab
Cardiff University has confirmed that it is to launch a formal investigation into alleged research misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine.
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Private dental school launched with Buckingham
The UK's first private dental school has been launched in conjunction with an independent university.
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Inside Higher Ed: 'Entry-level' job adverts unsettle academics in US
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Poll claims public in favour of cap on foreign students
More than two-thirds of people want to limit the number of foreign students admitted to Britain, an opinion poll has revealed.
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Oxford college devotes full-time post to access
A University of Oxford college has created a full-time academic post dedicated to encouraging bright state-school students to apply to competitive universities.
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Figures reveal huge drop in students starting university
The number of mainstream students set to start higher education courses in England this year is down 62,000, or 17 per cent, on last year's figures, analysis by Times Higher Education suggests.
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Fee cap frozen in Wales for three years
The maximum annual tuition fee for universities in Wales is to be frozen at £9,000 for the next three years, the Welsh Government has announced.
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Private providers among those chosen for London Met students
Three of the 15 institutions initially chosen as potential destinations for London Metropolitan University's overseas students are commercial operators, it has emerged, after a £2 million fund was...
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Ministers want to 'disaggregate' overseas students from net migration
The government has announced that it wants to publish more detailed figures on overseas students that "disaggregate" them from totals on net migration.
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The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Richard Overy discusses the roads to hell that were paved with utopian intentions
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Eve Escapes
Shahidha Bari is touched and troubled by a daughter's efforts to articulate her mother's decline
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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Hollywood and Los Angeles, you might well think, were made for each other. As early as 1915, with the film industry barely out of its infancy and orange groves still covering most of the rural...