2 January 2014
The outsiders - Non-EU scholars in the UK tell of life interrupted

The outsiders - Non-EU scholars in the UK tell of life interrupted


David Willetts’ finely balanced aims for higher education are too often belied by the impact of his government’s policies

United StatesMajority interestApollo Global, a subsidiary of Apollo Education Group, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Australian online learning company Open Colleges Australia. The US for-...

Source: ReutersTidal treasuresThe recent storms that have battered Scotland’s coast may have revealed new archaeological sites, say scholars. The University of St Andrews is working with Historic...

These pictures are from the archive of the lesbian photographer, writer and performance artist Tessa Boffin (1960-93), now held by the University for the Creative Arts Farnham

Big Data InstituteUCL pledges to retain open accessUniversity College London says its partnership with the huge publishing and information company Elsevier on a new Big Data Institute will not affect...

Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesThese awards recognise early career researchers whose work has already had a significant international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally...
Buckminster Fuller may well have sought beautiful solutions, but that view is more in line with technology than science (“Both sides of the equation”, 12 December 2013).Working “solutions” such as...
As Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, so eloquently put it on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? recently: if Universities UK had replaced the word “gender” with “race”, it would never have even...
My recent article on conducting field research in Rwanda (“The price of admission”, 28 November) generated two critical responses in these pages – an article by Erin Jessee (“Subtle as foxes for prey...
As a barrister, I occasionally represent clients who elicit little public sympathy. The “cab rank” rule requires barristers to accept a case even if they disapprove of the client or cause. Yet when I...

Christmas is over and winter’s grip will tighten in the grey weeks ahead. The only crumb of consolation offered by the New Year is the chance to take stock of the past 12 months and to learn some...

Student Rights’ agenda questioned by LSE, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths unions

The European Commission released the latest data on the number of animals used in science last month. Across Europe, researchers used 11.5 million animals in 2011, down half a million compared with...