Obama wants cost to feature in accreditation scheme
Plans would expose colleges and universities to competition from lower-cost alternatives, say observers
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London Met suspends convicted bomber and union activist
Unison promises to counter any attempt to dismiss duo
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State entrants to elite club benefit from easier access
But private pupils do not suffer discrimination, expert argues
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Catholic and Islamic voices decry stem cell ‘bias’
Religious sense ‘cover-up’ in emphasis on embryonic work
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Sense of style, no lack of substance
Image consultant: ‘jumble sale’ dress code does not an intellectual make. Matthew Reisz writes
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Talk of fair play is not enough
David Cameron can court India’s students all he likes, but the UK’s immigration policy is hardly bowling them over
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14 - 21 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Surprise order of Bath has landed us with a right royal chancer
Joanna Lewis asks whether appointing ‘a decent enough upper-class numpty’ as chancellor is the best her alma mater can do
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Big picture from all angles
Humanities must embrace interdisciplinarity and reclaim their key role in our fractured world, says Michael Worton
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GMC may expand sanctions for failing UK medical schools
Regulator to review range of options for institutions falling short on quality measures
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Institute of the Arts Barcelona makes pitch to UK performing arts students
New UK-validated for-profit college to sell itself on sun, sea and low fees
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Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart
Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective
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The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion
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Karen McAulay, Jules Pretty, Peter J. Smith, Sharon Wheeler and Sue White...
…on The House on an Irish Hillside, One Billion Hungry, Our Man in Havana, Return to the Stones and Water: All That Matters
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CDBU cordially invites...
Sir Adrian Smith, vice-chancellor of the University of London, chastises colleagues in the Council for the Defence of British Universities who take “a rather naive view that beauty, truth and...