Vanishing points of view
Universities abandoned to untrammelled market forces risk being robbed of their diversity, with unpredictable results
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The systematisation of higher education in the US
Consolidation may bring greater efficiencies but the process is one yielding mixed blessings, writes Howard P. Segal
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Robbins Rebooted: a critique
Byrne wants to replace marketisation with corporatism, argues Emran Mian
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Boxing clever: television as a teaching tool
It’s time for lecturers to hand out viewing lists alongside reading lists, argues Chris Willmott
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State turns to Pearson for help placing for-profit outcasts
Thousands of students may be stranded as colleges lose student loan access
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Sheridan Le Fanu: 200 years of literary blood and terrorism
On the bicentenary of the Irish writer’s birth, Bill McCormack weighs his preoccupation with family, guilt, dualism and the disappeared
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UK students join Minerva Schools’ fledgling class
US for-profit start-up institution’s peripatetic, online-delivered degree draws undergraduates keen to try something different
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Overseas master’s student asks why she was allowed on to course
Postgraduate claims that her English was not up to scratch
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Russell Group rated best at cat-herding, says study
Research suggests some standard management techniques work on academics after all, and older institutions are most effective
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Getting to grips with Grub Street
Jonathan Sullivan on how to improve the relationship between academics and journalists
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David Blanchflower on degree trends that follow the money
The economist urges the UK to study a shift to subjects that lead to highly paid jobs
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Scottish freedom
Terry Brotherstone (Letters, 21 August) says that my argument for “no” in the 18 September Scottish referendum (“Visions of independence”, Features, 14 August) did not address the “democratic deficit...
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Twitter and blogs are not add-ons to research
The best academics are those that build a form of public dialogue into their work
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Graduate calls University College Suffolk ‘unhealthy’ for black students
Jason Haye says his 2.2 degree would have been higher but for institution’s environment, citing artist Maggi Hambling’s ‘slave’ comments