Research intelligence - Broadcasting a gender
A BBC project aims to boost numbers of female experts on radio and TV. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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US aims to start young and keep going
Starting higher education in school pays financial and academic dividends, writes Jon Marcus
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Literary theory
When I served as the head of an English department in North West England, I was faced with a number of what may politely be called “challenges”. But one challenge I did not face was figuring out what...
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Accentuate for-profit positives, eliminate negatives
US policymakers should not overlook the positive aspects of for-profit colleges, a study has argued.The report from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right- leaning thinktank based in...
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Joined-up thinking could win visa argument
Australia’s united front offers lessons for the UK, forum hears. David Matthews reports
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News in brief
United StatesHoly trinityA US accreditation body has approved the merger of two faith colleges with a university. The Higher Learning Commission gave the go-ahead for the Assemblies of God...
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Permanent revolution
Research paints picture of permanent revolution in sector since mid-1990s. Jack Grove reports
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Odds and quads
This letter, signed by Charles de Gaulle, was sent to Michael D. Jones, founder of the Welsh colony in Patagonia in the 1860s, and now forms part of the archives at Bangor University devoted to the...
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Union message to LSE: hands off our annex
Union defends LSE’s ‘academic annex’ against management plans for reform. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
MoocsAnd NovoEd makes threeA third massive open online course platform developed by academics from Stanford University has been launched. Following in the footsteps of Coursera and Udacity, NovoEd,...
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The week in higher education
Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie’s Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...
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Leader - Core values and the cradle of liberty
Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
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Talking points
Informal group admits reform requires more work than previously thought. Elizabeth Gibney reports