UK postgrads 'shocked' at sight of foreign peers
"I was a bit bewildered at the beginning. It was like, 'ooh', surprise, no English people!"This was one of several negative reactions from British students asked to reflect on the large number of...
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News in brief
Open-access publishingBattle of the billsA bill has been introduced in the US Congress that would give a major boost to the open-access movement. The Federal Research Public Access Act would require...
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Nerc shrinks pool of PhD partners
Studentships will be restricted to 20 centres as council keeps numbers steady. Paul Jump reports
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Room for a profitable view
High-quality private provision widens choice, maintains standards and has a vital role to play, argues Carl Lygo
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Will chasing the market really result in an increase in quality?
V-cs say that their institutions need to be 'fast on their feet', but simply expanding popular courses will not work, says Graham Gibbs
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Mondrian Nicholson: In Parallel
Mondrian's and Nicholson's lives intertwined, but links between the artists should not be conflated with parallels in their art, says Alexander Massouras
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Diary
LondonCamellia Festival 2012The Chiswick House camellia collection is probably the oldest in the Western world. The second annual Camellia Festival, which runs from 18 February to 18 March, promises...
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The Pick - The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of HoffmannIn repertory at the London Coliseum, until 10 MarchThe strange, theatrical and often disquieting tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) were a great favourite of Sigmund Freud's....
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A surfeit of leaders?
In a shock statement, our university's Head of Leadership, Stewart Edge, has announced a moratorium on the appointment of new leaders.Speaking to our reporter, Keith Ponting (30), Mr Edge explained...
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Speak out against damaging visa policy
Are we ordinary academics in danger of replicating Universities UK's pusillanimous stance towards the government's ill-considered directives on higher education by rolling over without a fight...
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Fear of failure? (1 of 2)
I read with interest the opposition that some Scottish principals expressed at proposals to improve university governance ("Scotland's university chiefs cool on governance review", 9 February). I...
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Fear of failure? (2 of 2)
Your report "Scotland's university chiefs cool on governance review" is as disappointing as it is incomplete. It is, however, surprising - in the light of the furore over executive pay and bonuses -...
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Down but not out
The article "Crisis, what crisis? Fall in applicants meets with indifference" (2 February) was informative in looking at the national decline in figures but it did not look into some of the wider...
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Get keen on green
An open letter to David Willetts, universities and science ministerThis week, across the country, thousands of students and staff have taken part in People & Planet's Go Green Week, focusing on...
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Mind our languages
The opinion article by Sir Adam Roberts ("Tongue-tied UK badly equipped to join in the conversation of nations", 2 February) issues a timely warning about the decline of languages in UK higher...