Shared savings plan to halve admin costs
London Metropolitan University is set to cut its administration costs by up to 50 per cent by sharing services with other institutions, bringing "some staff losses and some staff gains".
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We're so clever, students claim...
But undergraduates' confidence in their abilities isn't echoed by employers, as Jack Grove reports
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'Wrong statistic' blamed for Aimhigher's fall
Axed scheme had a wider reach than it was given credit for, attests academic. Jack Grove writes
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Learn from apartheid-era access initiatives, v-c advises UK institutions
British universities can learn lessons from the admissions reforms used in South Africa to recruit promising black students, a vice-chancellor has argued.
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At a 'natural' time, chief of 1994 Group bids farewell
Members of 'the sensible group' must now decide on its direction, Paul Marshall tells Simon Baker
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Branding-wise, it's pound-foolish
Using consultants an 'excellent way to waste time and money', says scholar. David Matthews writes
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News in brief
Student accommodationPrivate room serviceA university has transferred the management of its entire student accommodation to a private company under a 125-year agreement. The £230 million deal will...
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Value added answer
A sales tax dividend could be just the ticket for a US sector hit by wave after wave of state cuts, opines Hamid Shirvani
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Sins of omission: REF should give full picture for the taxpayers' sake
Allowing universities to cherry-pick the scholars they submit for assessment is bad news for transparency, argues Miles Hewstone
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Freedom to succeed
Combining funding and regulatory roles is hard, says Roger King. To do it successfully, Hefce must adopt a more autonomous stance
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Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Katharine Reeve on an intriguing exploration of how our physical and virtual identities are merging
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
Harold Shukman on a fascinating study of Britain's daring wartime plans for counter-revolution
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Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Over the course of Edith Wharton's long writing career, her women characters do grow up, in notable contrast to her male characters; and, insist Janet Beer and Avril Horner in their book Edith...
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume 1 - Microspherology
Few academics in the UK will have read the writings of Peter Sloterdijk, but in Germany he is a superstar. His 1983 book Critique of Cynical Reason remains the best-selling philosophical work written...
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Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others
The law and order brigade actually makes the US a more violent place, Joanna Bourke learns