Officer class: QAA training for students' unions
Student officers are to receive training on how to comment on their university's quality assurance practices, enabling them to "challenge and shape the quality of teaching" under trebled fees.
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Brunel's academic griot will 'fight dead image of poetry'
Benjamin Zephaniah hopes to get poets performing in his first-ever university role. Jack Grove reports
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London fields of plenty for regional branches
Private-style courses as UK universities look to reap overseas harvest. John Morgan reports
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Stop me if you think you've read this before: self-plagiarism 'misconduct'
Repeating yourself academically may break ethical, copyright rules, says US paper. Andy Wright reports
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'Protected' MRC still sees fall in grant winners
The Medical Research Council's success rate for grant applications has declined by another percentage point, in spite of a drop in applications and real-terms protection for its budget.
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Seize the global day
We live in a connected global environment, Graeme Harper says, so why does the sector act like it's 1911, not 2011?
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'Progressive' austerity and the obvious death of Lib Dem England
Clegg and Cable offer nothing new, just a return to Depression politics. They have sown the wind, says Simon Lee, and will reap the whirlwind
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The American way: so much spent on so few graduates
OECD data offer 'arms race' warning to a UK sector emulating the US model. Simon Baker reports
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Scholar fears widening-participation funding will be cut
The funding premium awarded in the largest sums to new universities to help them attract and support poorer students could be discontinued, a leading education expert has warned.
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LSE scholar admits race analysis was 'flawed'
Evolutionary psychologist issues mea culpa in wake of critical LSE inquiry. Jack Grove writes
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Academic efficiency drive may put Toyota at the wheel
Universities UK study highlights ways to streamline services and reduce costs. John Morgan reports
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Call for greater flexibility on retirement
Universities must stop using retirement age as a crude performance management tool as they face up to changing life cycles and the end of the default retirement age of 65.The argument was made by...
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Post-1992 campuses 'to be hit hardest by fees rise'
Number of students aspiring to attend newer universities 'could halve'. David Matthews writes
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Cheap-places policy may obstruct Cable's bridge-building plans
Vice-chancellors rehearse their objections to 'risky' White Paper proposals, writes Simon Baker
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Visa reform questioned again as passage from India shows signs of blockage
Fresh worries have been raised that visa reforms could be damaging the ability of UK universities to recruit students from overseas after more evidence emerged of a large drop in demand from India.