Concern over ‘one-size-fits-all’ visa service fee
Premium route to highly trusted sponsor status will cost £8k a year. David Matthews reports

Premium route to highly trusted sponsor status will cost £8k a year. David Matthews reports

Christopher Higgins details academy’s cost burden to Booksellers Association conference

Simon Nelson brings BBC experience to the launch of the UK’s first course platform. Chris Parr reports
Your latest set of World Reputation Rankings nicely demonstrate the circular reasoning that characterises much of the thinking about university reputations and branding. Your data come from asking...

Royal SocietyResearch GrantsAward winner: Huiling ZhuInstitution: University of KentValue: £13,480Development of energy-efficient radio resource allocation algorithms Leverhulme TrustResearch...

Despite hard times and fruitless protest, there is still power in a union, argues David Reed

Tutor warns of efforts to ‘sucker’ applicants as institutions game system

Felipe Fernández-Armesto calls for clearer protocols in cases of suspected abuse

Death before dishonourOnly quick thinking by one of our campus security patrols has halted a mass suicide bid by 22 Poppleton academics.According to well-informed reports, the academics were seen...

Tara Brabazon on the hypocrisy of digital utopianism

A sideways look at the week’s big stories

No hope to Nobel - how persistence can pay off for struggling hatchlings

Lisa Downing explains to Matthew Reisz how society’s unspoken prejudices are given voice in the discourse surrounding killers

Justice has been poorly served by the bloody-minded determination of the state to prosecute anti-fees demonstrators, argues Martin McQuillan

Campaigners at the University of Sussex plan to host a national demonstration against privatisation in higher education.