The week in higher education ā 18 February 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Student loans: confusion reigns on Englandās HE spending
OECD planning to change measures of public spending on HE amid complex picture on student loans
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Laurie Taylor ā 18 February 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners ā 18 February 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Business schools: distracted drivers of some bad practices
Like Volkswagen, MBA programmes have fostered harms as well as benefits. They need to rehumanise management, says DouglasĀ Board
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Indiaās passage might not be simple, but it can climb to elite tier
The countryās ambitious goals for its universities canāt be hit quickly or cheaply, says PhilipĀ Altbach, but they can be achieved
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Taking offence: a new pandemic?
From Rhodesā statue to radical speakers, the young and old understand, and cope with, offence differently, argues Felipe FernĆ”ndez-Armesto
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More needed than tinkering
John Jerrimās argument that free university tuition is in effect a subsidy for the rich is quite correct, although it was only one among a raft of such subsidies (āFree university tuition ācould lead...
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No silver bullet
The question of whether the fall in UK undergraduate applicants spells trouble for universities also needs to be asked at postgraduate level (āEnd of boom time for universities?ā, 5 February). The...
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How to help Jordan
There has been much debate about how to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and beyond. That debate has also taken place at the University of Bath over the past few months, with calls for the...