2 January 2014
The outsiders - Non-EU scholars in the UK tell of life interrupted
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Measured, but found wanting?
David Willetts’ finely balanced aims for higher education are too often belied by the impact of his government’s policies
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News in brief - 2 January 2014
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-...
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Campus round-up - 2 January 2014
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...
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Odds and quads - 2 January 2014
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
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News in brief - 2 January 2014
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...
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Grant winners - 2 January 2014
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...
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Stand-alone technology
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...
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Travesty in the UUK
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...
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Admission not impossible
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...
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Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles
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...
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The year in higher education quotes 2013
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...
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Students’ unions hit back at group monitoring campus extremism
Student Rights’ agenda questioned by LSE, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths unions
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Decline in the number of animals used in research in the UK
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...