End of the road for the 2:1 brigade?
GPA degree classifications are coming, but will getting a ‘4.25’ ever match up to a first?
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Grant winners – 4 June 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Denmark moots fair trade-off on gender
Sector fine-tunes policies aimed at addressing under-representation of female academics. Jon Marcus reports from Copenhagen
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Open for business: language skills can make a world of difference
Learning to read foreign literature and communicate in a practical sense can be mutually reinforcing, says Brian Bloch
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Welcome to Canada – but don’t expect to make friends
Nafsa conference hears of figures showing that overseas students’ interaction with locals is more limited than generally assumed
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Universities UK confirms opposition to Israel boycott
Universities have confirmed their opposition to any academic boycott of Israel following votes by student and lecturer groups in favour of sanctions.
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Government urged to invest more in science
The UK needs to stop using greater efficiency in research as justification for funding cuts, a vice-chancellor and ex-research council head has said.
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David Willetts: allow student loans to be used abroad
The government should lift restrictions to allow British students to use state loans for fees abroad, the former universities minister has claimed
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Louise Richardson: radicalisation best tackled by education
Education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation, the academic set to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said
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NUS president blocks national demonstration bid
The National Union of Students will not hold a national demonstration against austerity and student poverty this autumn after outgoing president Toni Pearce used her casting vote to block the action
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TeachHigher 'disbanded' ahead of campus protest
The University of Warwick has scrapped controversial plans to use a scheme called TeachHigher to employ hourly paid teaching and research staff
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University of Law sold to Global University Systems
The government says it will help ensure that there is “minimal to disruption to students” at the University of Law and that “its high quality of education is upheld” following the purchase
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US investigation unveils alleged testing fraud
By Elizabeth Redden and Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cautious response to PhD loans proposal
Scientific and university bodies have reacted warily to the proposed introduction of student loans for doctoral students