Back to their roots
Indigenous communities are attempting to connect with their cultural history by eating traditional foods, using native languages and moving back to their local environment, according to sociologists...
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Interest intensifies in UK degrees delivered overseas
Some fear offshore growth will slash the numbers coming to the UK to study. Hannah Fearn reports
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Original features
Ty Crawshay, or the House of Crawshay, was built in the early 19th century for one of Wales' leading industrial families. Today it stands at the heart of the University of Glamorgan's Treforest...
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Humble v-c welcomes University of the Air's open-access destiny
The Open University's Brenda Gourley discusses the institution's future with Melanie Newman
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Boring and dismal sciences? Not at all - they can transform our lives
Funding for economics and other related disciplines is being cut just when we need their insights most and are warming to their popularisers, says Jon Adams
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Playing the numbers game
The world isn't made of equations - we should keep alert against mathematical seduction, says Michael Bulley
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The week in higher education
"Everyone knows that student overstaying has been the immigration system's Achilles heel," Phil Woolas, Minister of State for Borders and Immigration, claimed in The Times on 16 April. Mr Woolas...
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Bankruptcy should be a real option, argues think-tank
Policy Exchange's call to end 'no-fail culture' draws mixed response. Melanie Newman writes
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Call for worthy recipient to take on professor's library legacy
The husband of an academic and broadcaster wants his late wife's legacy to live on by donating her extensive distance and lifelong learning library to a worthy higher education institution.Naomi...
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Scottish pooling model could make UK splash
A model being trialled in Scotland for sharing research across disciplines and institutions could be adopted across the UK.Research pooling, in which different universities work together to improve...
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Wage expectations are way off the mark
Students overestimate starting salaries by 10 per cent on average, study finds. John Gill reports
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Liverpool John Moores faced 27 tribunal cases in past three years
Questions raised about 'distant' management and 'litigious culture'. Melanie Newman reports
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Burden of oversight grows as committee membership drops
IUSS workload expands as average attendance at meetings falls to six MPs. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Sleep expert's book cited in US torture defence
A top-secret US memorandum on the use of sleep deprivation against al-Qaeda suspects cites a book written by a British academic decades ago to justify the technique.Jim Horne, director of the Sleep...
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Whistleblower kicked off board
An academic at loggerheads with Manchester Metropolitan University after he blew the whistle on alleged grade inflation at the institution has claimed that he was scapegoated by being kicked off its...