Odds and quads - 28 February 2013
This suitcase, filled with memorabilia from the First World War, was recently found in a cupboard in the University of Abertay Dundee’s psychology department.It turned out to have belonged to a nurse...

This suitcase, filled with memorabilia from the First World War, was recently found in a cupboard in the University of Abertay Dundee’s psychology department.It turned out to have belonged to a nurse...

Economic and Social Research CouncilFuture Research Leaders SchemeAward winner: Vanesa Castan BrotoInstitution: University College LondonValue: £171,459Mapping urban energy landscapes in the global...

A sideways look at the week’s big stories

Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism

Atsushi Senju discusses the strange case of Japanese ‘social withdrawal’

John Gilbey on how the geeks inherited cyberspace

Government loans may not be the answer, Hefce director argues. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Confused political rhetoric on student visas threatens one of the UK’s greatest global assets, says Martin Davidson

Ann Gallagher asks how the higher education sector should respond to the challenge set out by the Francis report into NHS failings

Sally Feldman on the simultaneous crescendo in age and music
The devaluation of the degree is often blamed on the rise of the post-1992 universities. Surely the real downfall of British university education began when college became “uni” and terms became “...

State cuts lead sector to impose ‘arbitrary’ student targets. Phil Baty reports from New Orleans

EUA advises greater coordination for ‘confused’ system

Institutional review approves academic standards but says ‘lack of clarity’ in marketing claims could be ‘misleading’

But registrar insists management is on the right track